skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reasonable Marxists may disagree on the class status of the Bagginses:

https://users.pfw.edu/wootdm01/bilbo.html

Personally I think that as well as their local status, their class can also be analyzed from a global perspective, where the hierarchy of the wider world goes Eru > Ainur > Maiar > Eldar/Edain > Other Men/Elves > maybe Dwarves > everything else including Hobbits. In global Arda it matters not that Frodo was amongst the wealthiest and highest-status Hobbits - they are viewed as marginal by the other races, and it was this very marginal status that caused the “higher” races to overlook their potential, which is a large part of how they succeeded.

I’ll also defend the idea that the military strategizing of Great Men was for nought. We are told quite clearly that the ring is the only hope for free peoples; that even if it is kept from Sauron, his forces will inevitably win. The Elves recognized this hopelessness (as part of the overall decline of “magic” in the world) and were slowly abandoning Middle Earth. Aside from Aragorn and possibly Faramir, the ruling Men are depicted as weak and flawed. The elite Elves and Men had ultimately failed - even after defeating Morgoth, Sauron had prevailed; even after defeating Sauron, he had returned. Further battle was positioned as noble but most definitely fruitless, unless the ring could also be destroyed. The greatest contributions of Men are taken to be those that assist or buy time for the Hobbits. No, they’re not taken to task for this multi-generational failure, and royal birthright prevails, but then Tolkien as a Catholic wasn’t aiming to demonstrate anything about class liberation - hence my reading of the story as being one of cross-class collaboration, and the wider point being that achieving meaningful change is likely to involve “big people” and “little people” finding ways of working together.
There are many problems here but to cut to the chase, BP (or whoever) is going to keep selling you oil and gas as long as you keep buying it. Shifting blame on to some faceless corporation and absolving yourself of responsibility is exactly the wrong answer.
What exactly is the technical reality that ties us to the terms "master" and "slave", or means that we can't change them if enough people think that's good?
Feels like just the tip of the iceberg. He is a pretty awful human being.
There is also notion-avatar.vercel.app
Sometimes breaking the flow with something else the user enjoyed, for variety, keeps the user more engaged.

But this behavior should be controllable by the user.
Re: numberplates

Foreign licensed vehicles can operate and drive in the UK for up to 30 days without applying to the DVLA (DMV) for UK registration.

However the UK government has never subscribed to any of the available EU crime and general population administration data sources which has always left the UK vulnerable to overseas criminal activities concentrating here because there's obviously no reciprocating return of information to the continental authorities either and so the UK has become the best place to let the law slip if you're up to no good in Europe.

Edit: slip not slop
Would the agencies who do SIGINT share with JPL? Yes, sometimes. About technology. I'm sure there's a two way street there. About fine grained details of the limits to RF and optical analysis of UAP as deployed for US defence? No.

Nothing about this UFO crazyness is about aliens. It's about SIGINT.
I started my Linux journey (having being a user on SunOS previously) on a IBM ThinkPad 755CX with a Pentium-S. Installed Slackware from floppies, took literally days to compile a kernel or large program. Eventually I was using `slapt-get`, found that Ubuntu could have KDE installed, thought I'd had enough of config, make, make install (or `checkinstall -S`) and installed Ubuntu+KDE (and later Kubuntu).

I still prefer .deb packages so now I'm looking at jumping ship, probably to MX Linux as Ubuntu is using more and more snaps and so far they've just caused me problems; I also have philosophical objections (not necessarily well-founded in logic!) against monolithic packages.

Not sure why I started that reply, ... get off my lawn!
> A statement like "we have products ranging from cake decorating to ...

If you have a statement like that, that is likely true. However, this is not a statement like that.

1. It gives a range of 3 permissible options. If one of these "permissible" options is "you can do anything", what are the other 2 options doing on that list?

2. Even worse for your interpretation, the very word permissible only makes sense if there are things that are not permissible. So once again, "you can do anything" makes no sense.

Both of these are non-sensical. Now had they actually written "you can do anything", this would be easy: they wrote nonsense. But they didn't write "you can do anything". What they actually wrote "ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results". That this somehow (how?) means "I can do anything" is purely your interpretation. And your interpretation leads to nonsense. So clearly your interpretation is wrong, particularly when there is an alternative interpretation, that does not lead to nonsense.

In addition, the "interpretation" that does not lead to nonsense is the one that takes the words literally. "Ignore the situation". Not "act on the situation and then do anything I damn well please".

3. Even a heterogenous range restricts. Yes, "we have products ranging from cake decorating to peanut crocheting to jousting lances" does not mean that those are the only items in the store. But even with your somewhat odd choice of items, if you go into that store and ask for an aircraft carrier, you will get odd looks, because the range of items mentioned clearly restricts the items they stock to non-aircraft carriers.

> it would be like trying to run on a CPU that's experiencing physical failures.

No, it is like reading beyond the range of an array: the machine will attempt to read fron that location, that may return a value, we don't know what value, or it may signal a fault. What it does is not defined by the standard, hence undefined behavior.

It's not that* hard.
I had the same impression (from personal anecdata) but I wonder if there's any concrete data on it. Do you know of any?
That's a type II hypersensitivity (IgM or IgG antibodies starting the complement cascade) and it's different from type I allergies (IgE causing mast cell degranulation). Type IV (cell-meditated, lymphocyte reaction) hypersensitivity, like poison ivy, is also different.

And then there's a whole bunch of other hypersensitivities that are poorly understood, like atopy.
We have such a divide due to the difference in education. It's primarily the uneducated who fall for nonsense arguments and don't see how they are being misled and used.

There is no easy way to fix this, because they are resistant to education and wish to indoctrinate their children into their same nonsense beliefs. The only hope is that with access to the internet the kids will be able to teach themselves and break free.
I haven't really looked into wasm yet, and am wondering what constraints one might run up against for interesting practical applications like yours.

You satisfied my curiosity at the perfect level of detail, thank you very much for taking the time!
> selling it as their own.

and there you've just put your own words into my post. Nowhere did the idea of selling comes into this (nor distribution of any kind).

If you publish, you implicitly allow people to purchase and read your book. The information and ideas learnt off that book is not subject to copyright.
Nvidia vs. AMD vs. Intel: Last 12 Months of GPUs Are Disappointing
I suspect, when the hype subsides, we'll figure out that AI is pretty good at the minutiae kind of thing.

In the aggregate, technology tends to empower higher-functioning work, by taking over the lower-functioning work.

I started off by programming Machine Code. Languages, compilers, and engineering discipline have allowed me to do a whole world more, than if I was still writing out hex codes, on a pad of paper.

But, when it all boils down, Machine Code is the atomic level (or maybe FET junctions).
Bambu X1 started shipping in July 2022 when their Kickstarter wrapped up. AnkerMake M5 started shipping in August. Bambu was first.

Voron is a kit or diy. Creality printers that were available at the time were not fast like the Bambu. Their K1 came later.

I wrote that at the time Bambu was the first to have a pre-built fast 3d printer. That is the first to market (the pre-built fast printer market) that I was talking about.

I don’t know how you say I was wrong, because everything you “corrected” me was in my previous post.
Yes they are. In... Is that Morse code?
Radical organizations are indeed often very much alike. I've been part of a cult during 15 years, and I do recognize patterns in all other radical organizations and movements. One of the most striking is having a common enemy, often a fictitious one on closer inspection.
> I am not sure what can the serialization framework possibly _do_ to make things secure during the serialization

Loads of things!

A strict specification that can only be interpreted one way goes very far. E.g.: a machine-readable BNF grammar file or something similar with no ambiguities.

A conformance test suite covering corner-cases is surprisingly effective, even with a supposedly perfect spec.

"Be strict with what you generate and lax with what you accept" has been demonstrated over and over again to be a disaster over the long-term in an ecosystem of many groups. Be strict always with what is accepted, not just generated!

Speaking of being strict: schema validation is essential. Strong typing for scalars helps a lot.

The actual implementations of the spec can obviously have a wide range of security features. Never allowing arbitrary type instantiation is critical, yet is a mistake that keeps reoccurring much like SQL injection.

Etc, etc...
>Cap’n Proto unions are not first class types. Instead, they are fields of structs

In some binary data description format, I didn't include unions because they are just a special case of what I called "conditional sequences". But then I added them, because it is very difficult or impossible to figure out whether a set of conditional sequences corresponds to a union (all must have same size, which is only known at encoding/decoding, and only one must be present), which you need to know when converting into more restrictive formats that only support unions.
because pedos exist, we're all slaves.

privacy is good. it comes first, as does the individual, as does the family. privacy is good for children too. it keep the snoops out of your sharing personal communications with your loved ones.
100% no.

The article, if you care to read it, documents how disinformation works. You start with a little, inconsequential lie, get your suckers in a row who yearn to be part of something, then escalate.

The clear path from anti vax to killing people you don't like is well underway. If it wasn't so horrifying, speed running nazi germany would be fascinating.
What was the cause in previous eras?
You mean using anonymous functions? This is still a callback, it is just a bit nicer (at least assuming the callback code is short).
They may become constrained by specific supply chain weakness.

The missiles may have to drop down a generation in technology to maintain supply.

Associated assets like digital radar, Command & Control may be compromised. And of course, trained staff.

"Running out" is complicated.
IIRC, an M40 is a pair of GPUs on one card, it has not video outputs, and it sucks a lot of power even for a GPU.
I'm looking at used M6000. cards that seem a better compromise at a higher price point.
> You can’t do that with the digits of pi

of course you can - pi contains all known combinations of digits.
Eh I think it’s moreso we have an over abundance of the former and the latter are dying out. A healthy economy is going to have a mixture.
Amazing writing. If you have a book I'd read it.
Liftosaur: Weightlifting Tracker App for Coders
I am gaming daily on 7900XTX, can you tell me what is not stable? I mean yes, it was not perfect for the first two months I had it, but now I dont have any issues (driver 23.7.1). I have even tried gaming on linux.

These days AMD has even better drivers with lower overhead than Nvidia https://youtu.be/H9guEsBly0I
I wonder how they tackle a few problems such as I've observed around here:

(1) People are comfortable on the streets, they enjoy the freedom, or they are at least accustomed to it, and paying rent/bills seems anathema to them.

(2) People are severely disabled by mental illness or addiction, and simply can't manage a household by themselves. Or they never learned how and they fail dramatically. This may be the 20% contingent who are moving back in with friends/family.

(3) People are naturally generous/irresponsible with belongings and income that they will spontaneously share the windfall with everyone they know. So your shelter for one man will end up being a flophouse for a rotating cast of shady types, and poor housekeeping skills definitely become operative here. Homes like this ultimately run into big trouble, like massive drug raids, fires, prostitution or something. Not fun.

Around here, the brass ring of housing is Section 8, and Section 8 has strict rules about guests and inspections and income paperwork every year. If you're not abiding by the rules then you're out on your ear. I don't know how many people wash out, but my case managers have inundated me with certificates and kudos for being one of their best, longest-term clients.

Housing First type approaches is great, and I'm glad to hear that they've "ended homelessness", even though that seems to sort of be contradicted by the 20% figure that was constantly cited in the article.
If you’re that paranoid, maybe don’t send super sensitive information using a chat application.
I concur!

This describes my situation - and I suspect that of many others here. It’d be great to have some insight into how you navigated all this.
Per the article, it's a medical shorthand, like "Normal for Norfolk". It means among other things "I know the real fix for your medical problems, but am powerless to carry it out".
Given how TV series are lately written and how latests adaptations of loved books went, I really really hope they wont make one for LOTR too.

Yes, in theory longer format should have more space to breath. In practice, we will get dialogs that will make you cringe, removal of everything that is not straightforward action, compression of everything nuanced into a single talking point and massive change in characters and plots.
Yeah i was referring that is possible that toolkits to do that in general (not just GUI toolkits, AFAIK even something like Freeglut which normally uses callbacks has an API for manual main loops), not specifically about Gtk.
> One day maybe

TBH, I doubt it. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize with your values. Heck, I'm even called 'woke' by most people around me. Yet I understand that in this day in age, thanks to cryptocurrency, money is and will be a private matter. No government will be able to confiscate your wealth, at least to the extent that your wealth doesn't depend on assets related with the government (e.g. real estate is related given that you need to pay taxes to maintain it).
Can't you just ask for their revenue and expenses? I've never had to do so myself, but I believe you can simply ask for a copy of their 'form 990', which you're entitled to for any 501(с)(3) charity such as the Wikimedia Endowment.

I'm actually rather curious now. Let me know if you write, because I'd like to avoid the airmail fee from the UK if at all possible :)
For reference, assuming they could fit the E3.L to E1.L of EDSFF ( they differ in terms of width and length ), you could now fit 8 Petabyte in 1U, or 336 PB in a 42U Rack, ~1 Exabyte into 3 Racks.

We should be able to fit 1 Exabyte into one rack by the end of this decade on a ~700+ layer NAND.

The question remains, how do we drive down the cost per NAND module. The current market NAND is due to oversupply and is not long term sustainable.
Sorry, do you mean the “un-educated” in your first paragraph? I’m having trouble understanding how the educated are the ones who resist education.
The 20th century is a stark repudiation of hobbes.
I Turned Local Storage into a Web Socket
> Just like deduplication on cloud services, this "feature" is literally only beneficial for the company so they can reduce your file storage use and make your data less secure

Every distributed object store I've ever seen takes your data, chunks it into a fixed size, hashes it and then distributes copies on multiple nodes.

So deduplication is intrinsic to the architecture and not some business decision layered on top.
> If so then this some next level captain obvious stuff. m

What a weird take, we should avoid naming things because checks notes they’re obvious???

> Give the addicts, the hobos and and the mentally unstable cash and good information/guidance on their options.

That’s some next level captain obvious knowledge that you never give cash to hobos and addicts if you want to fix root cause of their problems, how could you not know that?
No, NEVER. The very point of civil rights is to protect citizens FROM their own government when times get tough.
Perhaps the intended message was

"Both Croydon and Strathclyde are shit places, but Croydon is a little less shit. By spending that pound in Croydon we can hopefully avoid it becoming Strathclyde"
Because the discussion was about Mac and macOS doesn't have a server version anymore that's worth speaking about.

But when all this happened they still did, yes.
> If we had it, it'd be here.

Isn't this just the standard response when the clerk is not sure? Bring you to the relevant section and let you look for yourself.
You're not allowed to compare current polarization with past polarization? The article talks about the driving force behind the polarization which certainly could be compared.
It's primarily the educated who fall for nonsense arguments and don't see how they are being misled and used.

Are you able to justify this belief with anything more concrete than selective memory of anecdotal encounters?
What I'm more surprised by is how much people are willing to look past the things he has done.

But I suppose a large part of that is due to his reputation as "nerdy" and pure (baxk in like 2016).
So they are asking for security through obscurity and actually thinking that is going to last.

The article mentions a training video that demos the product, yet didn’t include it as far as I can tell. Why is that not being published? I don’t want a transcription of a company telling cops to protect their property, I want to see what this company is able to access when they illegally access my property.

Pretty sure if I access a computer system that I’m not authorized to, aka, hacking, I just committed a federal offense, yet a company is legally selling the ability to do that very thing, at scale, to law enforcement and telling them to keep it a secret. Last I checked, a law was a law, and it applied to everybody, not just us common folk.

Also, “certainly mention premium” is rich. So don’t disclose the illegal hacking internals, but do give a shout-out and free marketing for our premium product, so others in gov and law enforcement will see what you got from them and go signup. Shit, do they have a referral bonus to? Get on the stand and mention premium and the referral code WHOWATCHESTHEWATCHERS for 60% off your first month.

What the fuck? How are these companies allowed to do this? Oh right, because their customers are the ones who would normally be arresting them, so it’s fine to break the law.
I'm fully expecting my government (UK) to work out a way to implement thought crime and pre-crime law.

Surely that's their ultimate goal.
> To see life as full of abundance, good purpose and to find joy in it.

Given that most (if not all) enjoyable things in life involve some kind of a fee (however small), that’s hard to do.
The anti discrimination laws have been extended to encompass nannies and day card, and you've got a ton of scamming lawyers encouraging extremely poor women to sue their employees because the legal fees are so costly that it forces settlement. Guess who pays for this
My favorites are Debian for servers, Arch for desktops. Debian in desktops didn't really work for me... a rolling release makes more sense.
China’s 40-Year Boom Is Over. What Comes Next?
The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon
"I had a fairly standard upbringing.

Learned to read from the Commodore 64 user manual, Spock and Wesley Crusher as a role models. Summer holidays in Mousehole, first trip abroad was to meet my Uncle in Canberra, amongst other parts of Australia and Asia, where I totally failed to see Uluru or get beaten up by a kangaroo (though in fairness I was like nine and would have been mild and gross irresponsibility respectively on the part of my parents if they had in fact happened). Raised Catholic by an atheist father and a mother who filled the house with Hindu idols, Orthodox icons, healing crystals, and runic horoscope equipment. Saw my father suffer an epileptic fit at the kitchen table — what's now called 'tonic-clonic' but at the time we called it 'grand mal'.

You know, the usual."

(Can you guess what, if anything, is embellished?)
In my experience, 80/20 rule applies. Over 80% of free tier people bring in less than 20% of the income but cause 80% of the problems. If there's a subreddit, frequently it will be swarmed by people who demand cheaper and freer tiers. The longer your free tier, the more of those types swarm. OpenAI forums were very chill before ChatGPT, and the paid products like plugins remain relatively chill.

I'm not sure if there's a marketing benefit, but free tiers seem to have very low ROI. It attracts lots of tire kickers, the kind of people whose full time job is to evaluate cheaper tools, even if they do 10x less than the ones that cost a little more. It's the kind of thing you do when you need the numbers (e.g. Facebook or a MMO), where the users are also the product. Or if you've completely tapped out other channels.

However, if you haven't proven yourself enough to make the sale, they're a good tool. But generally, the people who are facing the problem the most are already spending a good sum on their own hacky solution, and happy to pay even for a small chance to make things better.
That's correct. YellowDog was based on Red Hat Linux but built for PowerPC computers.
Apple buying Sun would have been a disaster. Oracle at least needed some (arguably most) of what Sun made - Apple did not and do not.

Apple would have killed Java in half a second. They don't need it, it was built to do the opposite of what they want their tech to do. Same for Solaris, burdensome duplicate. As for all the desktop-oriented FOSS projects (OpenOffice, VirtualBox etc), they would not have just been killed - Apple would have viciously bullied anyone to preclude them from forking them. The stuff they'd keep (MySql, probably), they would have made osx-only, and then strangled them quietly after they got out of the server game. They would have ripped anything technologically interesting from the hardware divisions and then shut them down - because they were no match, in terms of supply efficiency and value, for the Apple equivalents; and anyway they were never seriously interested in the server space.

Oracle did what Oracle does, and realistically the culture clash was never going to result in a smooth transition; but from a commercial perspective they kept around the best of what Sun was making (Java, servers) and largely let the community get on with the stuff they weren't interested in (if rebranded/forked). The only real crime they committed, IMHO, was trying too hard to make money from VirtualBox, effectively spooking the market; there is a different timeline where VBox ends up being what Docker became. But everything else was par for the course.