skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except fish populations in the oceans. Japanese are well known for their very high fish consumption
As someone that might well be interested in using this (as in someone that is likely to make use of better tooling around LLMs), I'm really struggling to understand what it does. Can anyone provide a summary of what an agent is in this context and an example of why this library makes things better?
A Raymond Chandler Inspired Thriller: Imperial Bedrooms, by Bret Easton Ellis
Merchants are raising price of goods and services to pay Mastercard/Visa/bank fees. So this can be beneficial for consumers as well.

As of other benefits, this system is much younger, I hope it'll improve with time. I try to use it more often, although actually it's still faster to use the card compared to unlocking the phone and unlocking the bank application to pay with the QR code.
> I see this as the "end game" for FPS cheating. I don't think anyone is doing it yet, but it's bound to happen.

You're behind the times. It's not widespread but it's been happening for years.

Also the other day selenium author (iirc) said they are working on such a thing for "automated testing"

So this proposal will do nothing to prevent bots; maybe increase the cost a little.

On the other hand, it will surely discriminate people, new emerging technology and companies. No other search engines can be built. No new browsers. No openness.

Anyone supporting this proposal is either pure evil or stupid or both.
AFAICT it doesn't read much of anything under Linux. It has supported following the system light / dark setting for a while on Windows and MacOS, but it still doesn't do it on Linux. The kicker, though, is that a plugin is able to do it, so it's not impossible.
Anyone know what the "PGO" referred to in TFA is?
It's more like chroot, with a special namespace for processes.
There’s a pretty good chance the Nimitz incident was an intentional decoy self-test by the Navy IMO. Clouds give a radar return, so a projected plasma target would probably also give a radar return.
Swimming in Sydney Harbour is also possible. They did it for a leg of the triathalon in the olympics a couple of decades back. Wouldn't recommend though, there's a lot of bull sharks in there and they're kinda aggressive. Netted beaches and bays are the go.
Its quite responsive on my end, admittedly i'm only running it on a i7-8665U with 8gb of ram, not some shiny apple M* cpu.
Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
Friend found some developers vacation photos on an industrial controller.

Turns out they did ship a 1:1 image of his machine.
> But having the private sector write legislation doesn't violate the government's duty. The government fulfills their role by passing it.

So massive CEO wages are justified then considering its your boss or the boss of the largest company in your line of work helping to write the legislation?
https://sustainablereview.com/high-population-density-pros-a...

There’s a Pros/Cons table where the first row almost seems like a paradox. A “pro” of a high population density is that you have access to resources. A “con” is that the resources are still limited.
yea, given the progress we've made in harnessing physics over the past few hundred years, extrapolating for the lifetime of our species, as long as we're around for long enough to figure out time travel...

we should be able to come back, which means we would already be doing so? as long as the preconditions remain true... either way we would probably have some sort of "butterfly effect/grandfather paradox" laws in place

that said, the value of future earth visiting past earth would likely be 'kitsch' at best :P
What's the shitty country? India?
It also solves the "we have limited developer-hours available and just want to deploy some stuff" problem. Docker is amazing for teams with limited resources. If you can deploy one image, you can deploy any image.
The kids 'involved' in satanic ritual abuse "accurately" described many things, because they were questioned by adults who had the goal of guiding them to what they thought was the right answer, and connecting any vague statement they made to it. Some to the point of berating and threatening them, if they did not give the answers desired.

Satanists do not go around making ritual child rape altars. That is so fucking ridiculous that it should immediately fail the sniff test for anybody.
profile guided optimization https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/profile-guided-o...
I'm curious how the prices shake out against services like Wasabi, since it's just dumping to an AWS S3 bucket

Wasabi does $7/TB with no ingress/egress fees. My NAS is set up to rclone to it about once a day and I've yet to have any problems
What use is SLA? If a service goes down for too long, are you really going to hire a lawyer sue it over SLA or just... use another backup?
Well that can’t possibly go wrong.
JavaScript immediately comes to mind.
It's insane. Not sure how anyone can accept such a rip off pricing.

Tarsnap : $0.25 / GB storage, $0.25 / GB bandwidth cost

rsync.net : $0.015 / GB storage, no bandwidth cost

s3 : $0.023 / GB storage, some complicated bandwidth pricing

If tarsnap is built on top of s3, they're charging 10 times for the storage cost. Easy money from the uninformed?
It will still be anchored in reality, it just won’t have the guaranteed bump from population increase. Growth will be slower, but will still happen due to technology and efficiency improvements.
Once we set our expectations to 1% growth, there’s no reason that has to be a problem.
In fact, it should be the opposite. You get way more economy of scales in providing a social safety net in dense areas than in sparse areas. Hospitals can cover more people, social workers can handle more cases, public transportation becomes cheaper, etc.
> and every generation says the same thing

Juvenoia: "The fear or hostility directed by an older generation toward a younger one, or toward youth culture in general."

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD0x7ho_IYc
You need a remote service that keeps backup readonly. You’re not covering attack scenarios if you just use raw object storage from your client machine.

I have written about this some time ago if you’re interested: https://www.franzoni.eu/ransomware-resistant-backups/
Interesting to see a microsoft employee openly rooting for the FSF and the EFF against google. What is going on here?
Cl Condition system + repl = godmode. Your software crashes? Do you go back and set a breakpoint? No, because you’re already in the stacktrace in the repl exactly where the crash occurred. You fix the code, reload it, tell it to ether run where it left off, or restart from an earlier point.
There is a freedom problem, there is a hardware problem and there is a social problem.

The freedom problem is this: you will not be able to roll your own keys.

This is probably the biggest nail in the coffin for a ton of computers out there. In theory you could simulate via software the workings of a TPM. If you built a kernel module the browser would have no real way of knowing if it sent requests to a piece of hardware or a piece of software. But the fact that you would have to use Microsoft's or Apple's keys makes this completely impossible.

The hardware problem is this: you will not be able to use older or niche/independent hardware.

As we established that software simulation is impossible, this makes a ton of older devices utter e-waste for the near future. Most Chromebooks themselves don't have a TPM, so even though they are guaranteed updates for 10 years how are they going to browse the web? (maybe in that case Google could actually deploy a software TPM with their keys since it's closed source). I have a few old business laptops at home that have a 1.X version of the TPM. In theory it performs just as well as TPM 2.X, but they will not be supported because, again, I will not be able to use my own keys.

Lastly there is the social problem: is DRM the future of the web?

Maybe this trusted computing stuff really is what the web is bound to become, either using your certified TPM keys or maybe your Electronic National ID card or maybe both in order to attest the genuineness of the device that is making the requests. Maybe the Wild West era of the web was a silly dream fueled by novelty and inexperience and in the future we will look back and clearly see we needed more guarantees regarding web browsing, just like we need a central authority to guarantee and regulate SSL certificates or domain names.
I believe this concept was tried out in communist states. They sent intellectuals out to farms in china so they could get some hard manual labour.
Obligatory Gang Stalker Song by Rusty Cage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOzHCa-_PMs
Are you aware of climate change and it’s relationship to CO2 emissions?
It may be that the supreme court has too much power, but the executive branch actually has executive power, which the court does not. In the meanwhile, the parliament is held hostage by the government, by the power of coalition and party discipline. An evidence for that is the total uniformity in how they vote for the problematic bills in question.
Does it, though? Isn’t this a rich individual or small group of individuals can pull off in clandestine ways? Or at least get started developing the technology for? I know there are people on this forum who are doing exactly that.
in that case I'm curious about all the downvotes for asking a reasonable question
Absolutely fantastic write up - thank you so much. I will go away and do some further reading!
IMO, the downside with the term REPL is that if you don't understand the specific Lisp definitions of the terms, it sounds like any other interactive execution environment.
But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to drawing with circles [video]
It's not clear to me that fertility will ever rebound. Is there a scenario, where some little Japanese girl who has been the only child from only children for 4 or 5 or 10 generations wakes up one morning and says to herself "I want to grow up to be a mommy and have 2.1 children"?

And, if she doesn't do that, then some other little girl in Japan has to say that same thing but with a number higher than 2.1.

Why would they buck the trends of their own ancestors, their own family?

Surely, it looks similar to the ancient past where some lineage looks as if the same happened. But that was because only one offspring survived to adulthood, and then of his or her children only one survived. But they were having many more with tragic results. Those children, for as long as they lived, existed in a world where people were trying to have many.

This is the part where people reply to me as if I were crazy. But children who grow up seeing those adults around them having few children internalize that as normal, and don't seek to have more than that number.
Don’t really agree with this generalization to business and startups.

Mathematics/theoretical physics and “prestige” writing are possibly the two single most fields in which a single person working by themselves can, and often does, produce something of tremendous value. So yes, they are filled with “rogue genius visionaries” who channeled their creativity into something great.

Running a business is not like that at all. It’s pretty rare for any business, even in software, to be able to directly attribute its success to one immensely valuable insight or innovation. And even if it could, the actual work of building a business around that innovation IMO doesn’t require a particularly innovative environment for the line staff.

Take Google - hugely profitable, most of its success stems from creating two innovative things (good web search, and auctioned search ads). Pagerank was not even new when Google was founded and the idea itself was easily replicated elsewhere. Google was successful because they just searched the thing you wanted quickly with no BS compared to their competitors shoving portal garbage in your face and lazily linking to curated indices of keywords - by the time their competitors got their shit together Google had all the usage to use search outcomes (hit back, researched with similar terms) to improve their algorithm, and shortly thereafter and was already executing on CAC strategies (some of which like android and chrome are arguably a third innovation, though I assert any search giant would be smart enough to pursue these, and indeed MS did).

Though they had an image of a smart person’s playground, and did have such a huge money spigot they lived up to it for a while, I think it was their execution on search and really smart investments in early products (search ads, ad networks, gmail, YouTube, chrome, android) that made them successful. And you can see the same with many “deep tech” businesses: OpenAI commercialized LLMS that were researched and developed a lot elsewhere by launching the first public, tuned version of it and using that to tune an even better product. Amazon basically executed the most boring idea possible “a shop on the web” into a hugely efficient everything store. Snowflake, databricks, the flavor of the month DB company are repackaging the same boring stuff into things that are simple and easy to use. None of these take rogue geniuses.

I think the advantage funded startups (especially the ones that grow into giants) have over hacker houses is they aren’t to nearly the same extent operating as social clubs. It’s not so much deep work and rogue geniuses as just having a culture of work to begin with, actually executing on things instead of trying to relive your frat days, cutting deadweight instead of letting them be ideas guys.
Japan's economy has been long replying on the "integrity" of a more connected society as to the Nordic ones, due to a large population (and high density). Integrity suppresses characteristics of people, so they are more collectivist(more exploited by the heirachy:() and the competition is intense due to this population density. Asia vs West basically.

S Korea is very similar to Japan, also facing the same problem of population decline, you can view S Korea(or even Taiwan) as a lately developed and peninsula version of Japan. Each of them with limited resources and a dense population, in which made J and K what they are today (You can look up how these two countries developed, I am not an expert historian). Even China, has a significant decrease in newborn population, despite its vast landmass and less developed population.

So basically, the achievement of development is brought by whatever suppresses the population at the same time, they are sort of at the local maximum of their country at current time point. The Nordic countries meanwhile are much loosely populated, higher average resources and so on, although not as capitalist as US. Again I am not a Nordic expert, but the distinction is significant enough that I can say applying their policies in Asian countries will not work.

Each country has its own "ecology", that are of course constantly interacting with each other so to speak, but still inertial wrt some policies that are do not cope with it well.
Thirteen days? Lots of pumping, and the dumping will be a miracle to behold.
Database in container solves a few problems for me:

1. I can start it and stop it automatically with Compose. That's a big increase in ergonomics.

2. I don't have to write my own scripts to set up and tear down the database in the dev environment. The Postgres image + Compose does all that for me.

3. Contributors who don't know much about Unix or database admin stuff (data analysts learning Python & data scientists contributing to the code) don't have to install or mess with anything. It works on everyone's machine the same way.

Volume and port mapping are basically trivial concepts anyway. There's been zero downside for me in using it, even though I personally have the skills and knowledge to not "need" it. Why would I go without it? It saves me time and effort that could be significantly better used elsewhere.
As slow as it is, society has been making progress. A lot of things that were unthinkable or unsayable in the 90s are in the open now. The arc of history is long but it bends towards justice.

It’s sad we’re still fighting on the LGBTQ front but in general it’s notable largely because justice is winning and these are the dying spasms of a hate movement that is losing state favor and is having to fight for its survival. They’re fighting because if they don’t then LGBTQ people are generally getting their rights protected and normalized.

Scouts is another example of how much the zeitgeist has turned on overt religiousity and bigotry. Even in the 2000s you couldn’t be an openly gay scoutmaster because what if you fucked a kid? And of course the deep religious pagentry/teaching that’s buried in a lot of the scout materials and routines. Just 15 years later that’s a really bad look.

Anyway there are a few rare people who are ahead of the curve on these issues and usually take a punishment for it, but time often proves them right.

She was right, and the Catholic Church and organized religion in general continue to be a plague on humanity. All the good they’ve done in the past few decades is more than undone by the Mexico City policy alone and the immensely negative impact it’s had on half of our population, along with continued assaults on women’s health, LGBTQ rights, etc. It’s just still tremendously impolite to say it but she’s right, this institution is a negative force on society.

As mentioned elsewhere, not standing/reciting the pledge of allegiance is another thing that was a bit controversial in the 90s but I think has just faded away nowadays. Even at sporting events today it feels a bit over the top and the connection to the hyper-militarized US culture and the pipeline to military recruiting is obvious - not a coincidence that flyovers and uniformed personnel are another common sight at sporting events.
You really shouldn’t if that’s a major concern for you and that is a valid concern. For the same reason I’ll never use PurelyMail otherwise it’s perfect.

I know you didn’t ask me — but I don’t think Colin can answer differently other than saying that he is training a family member or friend to take over if needed.

Here’s more https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7514753 this is also linked there http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg00846.html

Very old threads but I am not sure much has changed there https://www.tarsnap.com/contact.html

Why would you use it instead of restic? Well, for pricing in pico dollars ;-)

and for it has a functional GUI with tiny system footprint and that there really aren’t many such solutions out there.
You can find here the most up to date exploration in how these opcodes work: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=226987
The classic lisp way is to build a runtime image by editing the image while running it, then dumping a binary. You never specifically need to load a source file.

But you can't easily collaborate with that style of development.
Journalists need to get paid. Newspapers made a huge mistake back in '96 and went online for free. So now we're trained to think of news as free and ad-supported. But to be ad-supported they need clicks, and humans click more on things that make us angry/outraged/sad/etc. So journalists have to write articles that cause those emotions in order to get paid.

It's all shit, but blaming the journos isn't the solution. If we want to get "real" journalism, we have to pay for it. We need to become the customer so the advertiser isn't and the journos can go back to being the watchdogs on democracy that we desperately need.
Learning to use some backup tool that does same things sounds way better than paying 10 times more for the storage cost that lasts.

There's also a service like rsync.net where you can just rsync to the destination and they do the versioning and so on for less than 10th of the cost of tarsnap.
Those right-wingers broke the ToS. Which ToS did the previous account owner of @X break exactly?
I’ve found htmx to be the ultimate Django customising machine. Just make an htmx view and stick it anywhere in your admin. You can do this either by overriding a specific model admin’s template for more complex logic (for example the change template), or by sticking the htmx view in an admin read only field (super simple and works very well).

This approach allows you to have some very complex views in the Django admin without ever touching the internal of the Django admin itself. I used to waste hours trying to get the admin to do what I wanted until I figured out this neat little trick.
It's from a guy of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.
They did, many times. they're called flatpaks/snaps/self executing zip files.

Even windows reinvented the exe with msi's, and python has dists and wheels, and *nix/bsd has jails and vms have existed forever, and java has the jvm with jars and previously, applets.

Of course, none of those are actually as user friendly nor cross platform compatible as docker. Heck even docker isn't perfect and will leak abstractions once you start hitting syscalls (network, filesystem, etc), or if you're like 99.9...% of developers who don't host their own artifactory and cryptographically tag every step in their dockerfile

Show me an .exe that can self deploy an elk stack across windows, Darwin, and Linux with minimal system environment issues
Can you explain this part?
At least Java has proper syntax for lambdas.

But language wars are almost always meaningless, both have their places and they definitely don’t occupy the same niche.
We 100% know why airplanes of every shape and size stay aloft, and can calculate lift/drag extremely accurately based on the geometry of the plane and the airflow, in both steady state and much worse conditions. We have great approximations for steady state that make perfect sense and simplify the situation greatly and make it more understandable without simulation, even if they gloss over some details.

Where are you getting this terrible information that we don't know how flight works? Have you ever talked to literally anyone who has worked in aeronautical engineering, or even studied the basics of fluid dynamics?
This page is completely wrong in so many levels. It says it's talking about population density, but many of the cons are about population numbers. If you have the same number of people of a city, but spread out more, it is harder to provide services for them. Pollution? Yeah, a city looks bad, until you realize how suburban sprawl absolutely decimates entire ecosystems in huge areas. It is way better for the planet if human beings concentrate in a few places, and try to leave the biggest amount of area possible to nature. Also, the pollution per capita of less dense areas is way bigger, since the lack of public transit means everybody needs to drive everywhere.
The command line strings for Qemu can be enormous and complicated because they have changed over time, whats shown on page49 is very simplified, but should get some people going.
Not everybody works in a browser. I usually have an Edge, a Teams , an Outlook, a Total Commander and an Excel window always open. Then the working windows depending on the task: doors, CAD tools, etc.

Window management is a solved issue: just give me a fvwm window manager and i'm happy.

But of course, on Windows (see above) no fvwm and Gnome must reinvent the wheel every other year.
They claimed similarly spectacular things about about spiritual powers and psychics in the 60s and 70s, which turned out to be total bunk and most likely a funding scheme for the CIA.

If aliens are visiting us, why is the US the only nation to have any documentation? Are you telling me the collapse of communism, which caused everything from nuclear plans to biological weapon designs to leak, somehow left aliens untouched?
Time to hire people to better position for this future growth!
> At the expense of O(n) index access.

Ah yes, that feature which means we must have 2x memory overhead and/or dynamic dispatch, yet is also totally useless in practice.