skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part that resonates here is saying

"ah yes well we have a full database backup so we can do a full restore", then

"the full restore will be tough and involve downtime and has some side effects," then

"I bet we could be clever and restore only part of the data that are missing", then

doing that by hand, which hits weird errors, then

finally shipping the jury-rigged selective restore and cleaning up the last five missing pieces of data (hoping you didn't miss a sixth)

Happens every time someone practices backup/restore no matter how hard they've worked in advance. It always ends up being an application level thing to decide what data to put back from the backup image.
Perspective: the 95MB/sec memory speed quoted here is roughly the same as gigabit Ethernet between stuff in my house. This speed can also be achieved by 802.11ax if you are reasonably close to the access point.
To me it sounds like you're just describing enthymemes[1]. You don't need modal logic for that, just plain old Aristotelian rhetoric. And rhetorically you can fly a whole lot of ridiculous premise under the radar in the unstated leg so it's a powerful technique. It works somewhat similarly to the technique of "assuming the sale."

I don't have much to say about CRT or whatever you want to call that rhetorical program today, but it doesn't take any great analytical ability to suss out the unstated premises. And if you do it becomes pretty clear that the whole enterprise isn't exactly intellectually honest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthymeme
Thanks.

I was aware of the "checkerboard" land-grant allocation, but not how deep (perpendicular distance from RoW) it went.

I also wasn't aware of how brief the land-grant subsidy era was. Though it would be interesting to see a track-mileage development timeline or animation showing how trackage developed over time.

My general understanding is that track mileage exploded quite quickly, often with competing railroads establishing duplicate connections especially on highly-attractive routes, with the winner then absorbing (or simply competing to death) the loser(s). There is also a distinction between major (national or regional) Class I railroads, and short-line (usually Class III) railroads, where a short-line often served only a single line or small set of lines within a small region.

Overall, US railroad trackage shrank for much of the 20th century as early, redundant, competitive trackage was abandoned. I'm not sure what recent trends have been.
Logging chat is really really expensive in terms of hardware and CPU.

I don't really understand why people would need to log chat, it doesn't really make sense to me. Chat is meant to be ephemeral, short lived, and not leave trace. Chat is spontaneous.

If users want to leave a trace, they use a database or email.

Discord added threads and forums, and those should be logged, but not channels.
This article reads like satire.

The prerogative of the young is to question the status quo in fundamental ways.

They aren’t yet restricted by responsibility and dependents. They haven’t become numb yet. Let them be sharp and radical.

Does the author prefer control and indoctrination?

Positive cultural change can’t happen if we force the young and the free into a box. All of the freedoms we have have been fought against the mainstream and against established power.

We will always need radical and critical ideas to move forward. We need young people to be able to say that our questions and subjects are fundamentally wrong.
Voice banking: AI can recreate voices otherwise lost to disease
Ive found 2 models ago Samsung phones, Fdroid, and Universal Debloater to be the trifecta...

https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater
https://archive.ph/6BlWV
...and they haven't gone down in price, even though they're years old...

I'd be more inclined to try an Orange Pi 5. For $50 more than the Pi 4, you get twice the memory, eight cores that're also faster, PCIe m.2, full size HDMI, and more.

The Orange Pi 5 Plus is neat, too, particularly with dual 2.5 Gbps ethernet, HDMI in and out, and so on.
Definitely let us know any feedback once you try it. You can open up an issue at lpython github.
To be fair, what the NYT is claiming is that there were no technical glitches during the rollout.

People did notice paywalls going up.
The German Mittelstand model is indeed successful for those organisations that fit that model. Very often, many of the properties that make the Mittelstand work are not that successful for startups.

My personal story is just anecdata, but the German (and European, in general) startup stories are relatively few and far between, so I know I am part of a wider pattern.

It is clear that the EU Regulates (and taxes!) whilst the USA innovates. Once I dig myself out of this taxation hole I’m trying again in the USA.
There has been a significant improvement in availability— Pishop, Chicago Electric Distributors, and Adafruit (for the US) have all had big restocks in the last couple weeks, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to find one anymore if you need one
I completely agree. And I specifically draw your attention to the fact that this is not a formal verification, which it would be reasonable to do: Coq, Isabellll, Agda, F* etc. However, Formal Specification. Those. representation of the specification in a formalized form. Haskell example: https://github.com/rsnikhil/Forvis_RISCV-ISA-Spec

In this case, the term "formal" refers to the formalization of the representation of the specification. And it seems to be already established.
This seems much better than the last article I read about trends in high school debate, which basically was talking over the other person and using the gish-gallop maneuver:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
Do you plan to help create better ways to ingest data too postgres? There are notable gaps there. Or is the focus mostly egress.
Yes, but then you need a client/bouncer which costs some sort of resource, whether it being your own computer, VPS or paid service.

It's not trivial to setup a bouncer for the new guy who's just worked out how to connect to IRC.
I honestly prefer my AI therapist to the real one. Better in many ways and more knowledgable too. Maybe I have a bad therapist.

But maybe I have a bad girlfriend too.
In an absolute sense, it also isn't safe to take a sip of water.
When the irreducible complexity of a problem is met with a simple implementation the complexity has to go somewhere else, usually the user.
Not exactly a recumbent bike like the one in the article, but there was an attempt to mass-produce a tiny electric trike in the UK in the '80's (which failed miserably):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
My understanding from Mojo's plans is that they want to compile all of Python via their compiler (eventually), and then extend Python with extra syntax that will compile to high performance. I think right now they might not compile all of Python yet, so you are right they are neither a subset nor a superset, but once they deliver on their plans, they will become a superset.
I mean, even somewhat more staid fields like history too comes to trendiness. For about 15 years, there was an emphasis on trying to explain basically everything through the lens of empire. And that made the concept of empire so expansive that it became empty and lost all explanatory value. But it was the hot topic that got you a book published.
https://archive.ph/YDwim
The EU used to be the scapegoat, but that's no longer possible. What is the new scapegoat the UK people are being fed with these days?
Does the Matrix ecosystem fit this use case?https://github.com/matrix-org

One project I’m working on uses it instead of Slack and the Element client specifically is pretty good and constantly adding new features
Right, Japan's and South Korea's fertility rates are something to strive for /s
They’ll consort with an inner circle of “industry” accomplices to “address concerns”, keeping everyone out while covering the “we consulted widely” angle. This will get pushed through under cover of darkness with enough of a fig leaf of due process to plausible deny anything other than good intent.

If you’re working on this, shame on you.
That...doesn't define a visa at all? Like that straight-up describes such a wide range of documents as to be completely useless as a definition.
That's different because you block spammers' messages on your servers, without the cooperation of the spammers' computers.
Reading this stuff just makes me feel like people have been brainwashed out of seeking what they really need.

Rent everything, eat the bugs, take the bus, give up on dating, ignore your physical fitness, treat sex as an unemotional activity, don't have kids, the list seems endless to me.

Just so much absolute nonsense out there. Is it any surprise so many people are depressed?
> CPython has had a GIL for the past 30 years - and things worked out just fine.

No, they did not.

That's why the discussion about the GIL is about as old as Python3 itself.

The GIL has always been a major drawback of python, moreso because the language does in fact have threading support...only it can't use threads for parallel workloads.

This drawback was tolerated, because of the many advantages Python brings to the table, and because Python comes from an age when Moores Law was still in full effect; Powerful single cores were the norm not so long ago.

This isn't the case any more. Moores Law is done. Now we increase the number of cores, and languages that wish to remain relevant, need to reflect that.
That depends. Climate change might very well (seasonally) increase cloud cover, vastly decreasing the power produced.
> the Japanese during WW II

"Japan never seriously intended to invade Australia, a fact known to the Australian Government by mid-1942 and confirmed by intelligence reports, principal historian to the Australian War Memorial, Peter Stanley, said yesterday at a conference examining the events of 1942."

https://www.theage.com.au/national/japanese-invasion-a-myth-...
I think this is a useful form of thinking, while exhausting for actually attending a debate competition.

Much of the world doesn't operate in affirmation and negations.

And even most of American's political divisions only masquerade as opposites, but if you listen - which neither 'side' does - you'll see they aren't opposites except in result. While other results are possible that do possibly bridge consensus.
Why is it referred to as a revolution? A revolution tends to refer to the overthrow of a govt within a single nations border, whereas one country splitting from another tends to be referred to independence.

I don't really see the cause and effect either. Surely the USs love of FORTRESS walls would be a reason they won?

Anyway, you say lost. I say we got rid of the tea wasters. Sounds like a win to me.
The "threat model" of OP is the consequence of a wrong usage pattern. You keep your identities separate. If you're in a high-stakes environment where being DDoSed or attacked is an actual threat, you compartmentalize that identity adequately by going through a proxy, VPN, TOR, I2P, or using a different medium altogether. Fortunately, unlike other services, this is extremely easy with IRC since the identity is just a nick, and nothing prevents one from having as many identities as needed.

This obsession with having a single centralized identity where some vendor is trusted to painstakingly guard the linked PIID is misguided, unsafe, and harmful. Discord will fall prey to a data exfiltration attack eventually, and affected people will only then realize that this trust was misplaced. The fact that people are comfortable giving Discord their phone numbers while being worried about their client IP being exposed on IRC is baffling.
I can't stand the actual examples here (which reek of low quality Continental philosophy and dogmatic nonsense) but rejecting and questioning premises is definitely something I support, especially for young people.
For climate change they are... Crashing economy would help lot with emissions.
Might be a rhetorical question but are you on the cloud?

If so what language, apps are you running? I'd encourage you to take a look at https://ops.city && see if that is something that would work well for your use-case. It effectively turns your application into a server with no ability to run other programs on it and doesn't even have the notion of users or the ability to ssh in. The auditing requirements you are looking for go way down too as most of the things like "open a port", "log when rm -rf ~/.bash_history", or things like that simply don't happen. We actually measured the security controls from the the STIGs that are referenced in the other post and were seeing up to 70% reduction in them when deploying like this versus a deb/ubuntu instance, not to mention you don't have a half-dozen different interpreters, tens of users, thousands of shared libraries, etc.

Happy to answer any questions as I'm one of the authors/maintainers.
Dependency Graph in Angular Signals
I agree with you. The phrase is you don’t have backups unless you test your backups.

But in this case I don’t really get what the issue is. Restore everything from the last good backup and people miss some posts made in the meantime, sucks, but it’s an instant solution instead of hand work and uncertainty.
Just curious, where do you see an AI therapist? Is there a site or service that you like?
No need to make statements characterizing people's abilities based on age, especially since most folks would find blocking specific domains a challenge. I am making this statement based on working with people across all age groups from right out of high school to older adults.

(My sample is not representative, but the bias is probably more towards tech and having a college degree than in the other directions.)
Ombudsman asks Frontex about role in search and resque in the Mediterranean sea
What you suggest is to write a sandbox yourself and solve all the issues (e.g. fix all software to work inside sandbox). For example, software might need an access to a certain DBUS service, but you don't want to grant it an access for all other services. Out of the box DBUS doesn't provide means for that. Out of the box there is no way to prevent an app from getting information about a videocard (e.g. though Vulkan or OpenGL). And so on.

Regarding AppArmor, how do you write a policy that would allow a text editor to open only files that user has chosen in Open dialog?

In this case we can say that Windows is also absolutely secure - you can just write a kernel driver that would protect sensitive data from applications.
Sí, sí.
You see that even on sites like this one (or reddit), where the etiquette page beseeches everyone to vote for comments that are useful, insightful, or well-argued, rather than just what they agree with (especially already agree with).

But it never really seems to play out that way; it's always pretty easy to farm karma by restating a popular opinion, cracking a joke, or dunking on the target de jour.
There's no inherent need for anyone to exist. And there's no way to ask if a child wants to be born, so considering the times ahead, it would be selfish to cause more humans to suffer just so we can feel good about whatever thing we imagine to be important.

Produce a child who will either suffer in his own ignorance or will suffer while aware of the ignorance that produced him. Great.
“Our recommender system aims at maximizing user satisfaction and, as a proxy, we consider the completion count (and rate) at the session level, i.e., the amount of tracks recommended by the policy that are completed by the user. For this task we first train an agent offline using a non-sequential world model (CWM) as user simulator, and then deploy the agent online to serve recommendations to the users.

The outcomes of our user model are primarily consumption-focused and summarize the probability of user-item interactions. Specifically, CWM has been optimized for three targets: completion, skip and listening duration. The reward for the agent is computed as the sum of the probability of completion for each track in an episode.

…

All policies take as inputs features of the user who made the request and the pool-provided set of tracks with their associated features. The goal of each policy is to select and order a list of tracks from the pool that maximizes expected user satisfaction, which we measure by counting the number of tracks completed by the user.”
They can give you inventory though? Maybe it depends on the class of product though. When I tire or battery shop and they don’t have it they print me a list of other locations and quantities in stock.
> emergency breaking

If you look at the best braking cars (fastest 60 to 0 and smallest distance), excluding the supercars and hypercars, it's all Audi, Mercedes, BMW and especially Porsche.

A lot can be criticized about german cars but not braking well isn't part of it.

> In Germany (which has favorable taxes on cars) the average new car costs €36,000. BMW has nothing at that price.

A BMW 1-series start at 30 K EUR. Sure it's a "little" car but so are many of the cars people shall buy at 36 K EUR.

Unsurprisingly the BMW 1-series is nearly the best selling BMW series in the EU: neck to neck with the 3-series.

There are sure a lot of BMW 1-series where I live now (a country neighboring Germany).

I don't think BMW, VW and even Mercedes are going to give up that easily. They are trying to shift to EVs and I wouldn't rule out a country who's been producing the finest cars for decades yet (especially jot VW, who's not exactly been the first to adapt new technologies).
Beyond the population and proximity, I'm not characterising anything. You're reading in a lot into my comment.

But in Australian politics, Indonesia as a potential, albeit very unlikely, threat has been discussed, with the point being that 275 million people in a somewhat politically unstable country has that potential.

It's only in this century that Indonesia has become a functioning democracy and has had authoritarian and sometimes brutal leaders, slaughtering hundreds of thousands, in the not so distant past. It currently has relatively good relations with Australia but they are not close or secure. No one is accusing them of anything but there is a non-zero chance of them becoming a threat.
I'm no statistician, but the quoted data in the article is interesting.

> When looking at age and gender together, 63% of men under 30 describe themselves as single, compared with 34% of women in the same age group.

Who are the women dating, then? If it's older men, then you'd expect an inverse inequality among the over 30s. No idea if that's the case. If it's other women, and that's new, that's interesting in itself. Maybe it's a subset of under-30 men who are dating multiple women? Or maybe it's definitional, with the women counting looser relationships as "not-single" than the men do? Finding out what is going on there would be far more interesting than baseless speculation about AI girlfriends.
1) these people are not young and getting older every day, so priorities might change too

2) after a while if person A takes this on, there will be a request to powerwash the gratuitous A’s edits and insertions off of it

3) if the purpose is to have it in pristine state and do no edits, it’s not like old versions have disappeared, just mirror them away
Night time temperatures are also thing to consider. Not sure how viable thermal sinks cooled during sun-light hours would be...
Companies, lawyers, and the government, just like always.
>Java's default exception behavior is to bubble up a stack trace with every exception, whether you print it or not,

Anyone who has spent 5 minutes in Java knows exactly what this looks like. And also how unwelcoming it is to new programmers.
Founders All Day IPA is like 4% if you can find it
What you are suggesting is basically to write the code yourself. That's equivalent to "Linux distributions do not have proper security out of the box".
The real strength/popularity of the Raspberry Pi has come from its community and all the writing/video work that has been done for them.

That said, a lot of the alternative SBCs really pack a punch, and often can outperform the Raspberry Pi doing the same work. There are just fewer problems already solved for you. In some cases that doesn't really matter.
Indeed. Many laws and regulations around government agencies (not US specific, as I’m in the EU) specify what the agency is allowed to do, rather than what it isn’t. This is much easier to enforce, although it does require more regular review of regulations (that specify the details) to keep with the time.
Right, because the real problem with the world is that there aren’t enough humans. /s
Probably something you can create for yourself using some basic prompt engineering on GPT-4 or even 3.5.

BUT...

Do I want to share sensitive info with an API? No. Llama 2 might be a better option but it's way more expensive to self-host a 70B L2.
LibreWolf: A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
I mean that I could never try it in an actual project because why would I want to use a non-JS/TS language on the front-end just because it allows me to write a slightly more ergonomic version of React?
What? Especially ca. 2005 all the coaches I knew hated Ks. The influence was often from the judges who were not teachers, but former policy debate kids now at university.
Functions are vectors
Database replicas are "distributed", but not in the sense ActivityPub is.

The same error could have happened on any centralized service that had more than one db instance and background cleanup jobs. I don't think Xitter runs entirely off Elon's laptop yet, so they could have had the same kind of error.
Shouldn't professionals have backup tools? The use case may be interesting, but it's not something that I'd want to rely on.
25 years is just what they guarantee, it probably lasts much longer.

My solar roof (not Tesla, of course) is meanwhile 21 years old, and works almost like on day 1. Since I dont expect a sudden failure in 4 years, my guess it that it will last another 10-20 years.
The horse was just correcting you then (in its mind obviously). I've seen a horse correct a dog before with a kick and the dog was like whoah that sucked won't do that again. I've also heard stories of dogs harassing horses to the point where the horse is really pissed off, gives them the full double barrel, and at that point the only humane option is euthanizing the poor dog.

One of the newer John Wick movies showed what a pissed off horse can do in memorable style.
Opposite take:

I don't see any 50s nostalgia or "postwar rebellion of surplus military leather-wear" in Bladerunner, one of the biggest influences in the cyberpunk aesthetics (even bigger than Neuromancer, who mostly provided language and concepts, not the look).

I do see 40s noir aesthetics, combined with the "rising Japan", "corporatism", and "dystopian future" ideas of the mid-late 70s.

And Gibson wasn't that far off with his Cyberdeck either. 40 years later and hs description is not that different to a Mac Mini, a Raspberry Pi 400, or even, with some minor form adjustments, to the Apple Vision setup.

If anything both our "cyberspace" and machines are still lackluster compared to the imaginations of that era, even with the authors being "soft" sci-fi and not into engineering.

I don't think it's "hard to date" cyberpunk either. It's a distinctive early 80s vision. The reason that it still looks cool, is because we've lost the knack for inventing new visions of the future (or even bold looking industrial design that's not some minimal Braun inspired fare).
The article is from 2016, not 13. I was confused for a minute, like wait did the rift come out then years ago? 2016 was a fairly monumental year for VR and hmds