skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, read versions are just there to make what's known as "external consistency" work. That is, if transaction B starts after transaction A commits, then B will see the effects of A.

The reason external consistency is nice is that if you change the database, as soon as you get a commit signal, you can tell any other client "hey, go check the database and see what I did" and they will see the changes. No worries about whether the changes have sync'ed yet or anything like that.
Is government censorship via a third party not a problem for you?
Even if space isn't quantized, matter is.
I guess I don't fully understand U.S. healthcare system (I'm an immigrant from a country with universal healthcare, and this is the first time in my life that I've had a medication prescribed other than short-term antibiotics).

I pay a $10 co-pay for generic with my insurance, but when I pick up from pharmacy the receipt says "you insurance saved you $1888" (you're right it's not ~$2500/month - I just checked and that's a different prescription I have that I get filled at the same time).
In what world would any gaming hardware manufacturer not consider how they could acquire the best games? As if there aren’t comparable emails in Sony inboxes. Seems like a very expected line of thinking and strategy for any exec
To add to the other comments, in the run-up to go1.21 they talked about how they’d analysed a very large corpus of Go code to see what would be affected, and it was a very very small number.

I remember thinking that the number of people who have created inadvertent bugs due to this design (myself included) would be significantly greater than the number of people affected by the fix.
GitHub page has some info: https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby#current-status

My question is, how viable is TruffleRuby vs JRuby?
Great story!

At lunch today I was just talking about Sendmail, which I can assure you is a rather rare occurrence. I was talking about the first time I set up sendmail, back in '91 or '92. I was using the bat book and nearly tore my hair out over a week getting that first setup working. I eventually came to understand and appreciate the m4 config, but I ended up moving to qmail and postfix in the mid '90s and never looked back.
If you believe the lab leak theory for Covid, I assume that variety wasn't created with AI. Humans will continue to be the most dangerous creatures on Earth for a long time, not AI alone. Humans with AGI could be even more dangerous, so I can understand the push to regulate AGI. I'm afraid it's a losing battle. "When AGI is outlawed, only outlaws will have AGI"
Epilog claims (up to) 1200dpi resolution. Another comment mentioned the "standard bezier curve representation" is accurate to 0.03%. This means errors should start being observable with a circle as small as 3in. These are probably wildly optimistic assumptions, but it's still 10x smaller than the bed of their largest unit, and there's nothing to stop people from creating arcs of circles with radii even bigger than that!
The legislators know exactly what they're doing. They had amble information from everyone not in government.

They're banking on big tech accommodating them. Once they have all the data, they can sell it to the US gov, who then can target it's citizens by circumventing 4A.
The Japanese people love 'made in Japan' in a way that few others do. Furthermore, you wrote a lot of 'I' statements but eastern countries subscribe to collectivists values and the case could be made of Mario as a civic institution that belongs to the whole, not to be sold away to some foreigner. Depending on where you go with the traditional spiritualism, Mario might even have a soul and not merely be a property to be traded at all.

This does not fit neatly onto a spreadsheet or make for a good HN-type answer, but cultural values, religious values, family values, overall different social contracts, etc are perfectly valid levers that will constantly bite you if you are only interested in your personal abilities or things that can be quantified on a spreadsheet, esp when working with people of other countries.
Lot of what you say rings true. I am involved in a project right now where the team members are trying to do the right thing from a development point of view. However the bureaucracy of centralized information security folks and paperwork based approach of the quality and regulatory folks makes it painful. Hence reaching out to this forum to see if anyone has a good experience of doing it right.
1000% correct ... I don't care if this non-substantive comment gets downvoted.

The above is basically why the UK is currently swirling down the shitter ...
But being able to request it and having a built-in backdoor for anyone with a key are different things. It has happened before that the Chinese government figured out network equipment backdoors that were put in for the US government. All your company secrets are there for the taking for anyone with the resources to figure out that backdoor. Especially now that people know it exists. Shouldn't this at least start the clock on expiring this hardware?
> They got so much right from the start, then have managed to make consistent well reasoned, meaningful and safe improvements to the language over the years

In which universe? They have to constantly patch the language up and go back on previous assumptions.
Just make sure you sell, before the same governments legislate back doors in those same vpns.

Or, your OS.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not questioning the usefulness of béziers. I'm questioning the authors notion that postscript inherently is incapable of expressing accurate circles just because the language don't have built in primitives for them. :)
They recently started launching highly reflective satellites, which counterintuitively reduces the amount of light scattered in earth's direction.
Sure, running it through rpcgen generates bindings for both RPCs, NULL and COMPOUND:

/// /*
/// * Remote file service routines
/// */
/// program NFS4_PROGRAM {
/// version NFS_V4 {
/// void
/// NFSPROC4_NULL(void) = 0;
///
/// COMPOUND4res
/// NFSPROC4_COMPOUND(COMPOUND4args) = 1;
///
/// } = 4;
/// } = 100003;
Oof, right as the switch demolished the xbox in hardware sales.
Never said that Khadr should've been extradited, he shouldn't have at all and I support the Canadian government decision. But the claims of the Indian government against Nijjar are also dubious which points to the likelihood that any diplomatic transfer was a non-starter.

Of course, the difference here was that the USA attempted a diplomatic process and did not execute a citizen on Canadian soil.
The rumor is that neither of them has even the slightest interest in ever being involved in running Google again.
You are reconsidering the wrong part. Let's have smaller companies that aren't able to control that much of society.
What do you mean by "overstated"? This has been explicitly stated by at least tens of senior Nintendo employees, including all former+current CEOs as well as Miyamoto.
"Good evening, London.

Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke.

But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way.

Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly, there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. They were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic, you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night, I sought to end that silence.

Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words; they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot." - V
I only tested NATS using JetStream and I struggled with the throughput in Python. I probably used it wrong. But your comment may imply that jetstream is slow.
Wait what? Do you have an example or more information on this?
I helped with similar experiments at LCLS-I and the first half of this comment is correct. The chemical reaction is carefully timed on the order of milliseconds, so they get a series of snapshots of the reaction at a specific known state (but previously unknown structure). There isn't enough information in individual snapshots for the processing software to do very much with besides combine it with other snapshots (thousands of them).
A long time ago, brands used to mean something. They invested a lot in advertising (branding) to promote their products but they also invested a lot in their products so that brand would mean something. There was a tangible difference between the brands and people acquired brand loyalty because of it. That has almost entirely disappeared. Most products are all the same shit with different packaging and color schemes. But that is relatively new development.
Ah TIL - I haven't heard of them but looks like they're pretty well loved. We haven't had any issues with PEG.js (the lib/grammar behind our current parser) but will definitely keep antlr in mind if we run into issues for some reason (since PEG doesn't look well maintained anymore unfortunately)
Syntactic sugar, and computing every function [pdf]
This is a very interesting point. Tech-media companies (Google, Meta, Tik Tok) increasingly serve a similar gatekeeper function for public discourse that TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) did 50 years ago.

This... actually is a hopeful insight to me.
> The US would not have been in the ground riling up protesters if they thought the protests could organically overthrow their government, which was the US goal

The US can show their support for the protesters (if only to get them to think favorably of the US), regardless of whether or not they think the coup will work. It's not evidence they caused the coup.

I agree with the rest of that paragraph up until the last sentence:

> There is 0 doubt that Yanukovych was the legitimate democratically elected leader of Ukraine, but because he made interests that were not aligned with those of the US, of course it didn't matter.

I think the people of Kyiv are the cause of the coup, not the US.

The rest of your comment does not provide good evidence of the US causing the coup. Like I said before, it's clear who the US supported, but none of what you presented is good evidence toward the US causing the coup.

Unless you have evidence of a bribe, staging of protests, blackmail of officials, puppeteering of officials, attempted assassination of officials, government spy, some record of this plot, or some other good evidence along those lines directed toward causing the overthrow of the Ukrainian government, I don't think you can say the Ukrainian coup was orchestrated by the US.
Fantastic, clear, and thoughtful essay. This should be added to every list of recommended readings on the subject of AI risk.
> But you do know that apple authorized service center service is often worse

it seems incredibly dishonest to frame that as being something that happens often. can you provide statistics about how many apple authorized repairs come back with shoe rubber inside?

like if I go to a best buy for apple authorized service, you're telling me they have a big box of shoe rubber in the back they're using for repairs? Doubt.
Should have mentioned, if you want to chat about open source, analytics, or meet some of the Hydra team swing by our event in SF this Thursday: https://partiful.com/e/gowvDVdnNcBLKUzfGOPv
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I'll be the first to admit I know almost nothing about go, but it's surprises me to find we're still inventing languages with bobby traps like this, especially bobby traps that were well known and understood in other languages at the time.

Actually it surprises me we're still inventing languages where local variables can be mutated, which seems to be at the root of the problem here
>Or did you really believe this bill is meant to protect children?

I don't see how that is implied by my comment.
It's not making any claims about the quality of design in JS here. I'm literally not talking about them in the same sentence for this reason. I'm, instead, merely noting that it had the same issue. Looks like it was fixed in 2014: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/06/06/ C# also had the same issue, as noted elsewhere in the comments.
>All the smartness of the messaging can be implemented in the smart clients.

How do you do, for example, a queue with priorities client side without it being insanity? That's a relatively basic AMQP thing. Or managing the number of redeliveries for a message that's being repeatedly rejected.

You can absolutely try to build some of this with a look-aside shared data store that all clients have to depend on in order to emulate having the capability in the broker, but you just introduced another common point of failure in addition to the messaging infrastructure. Life is too short for this.
The IBM one for z was level 4 I think..

Yes: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cryptocards?topic=4768-overview
Rabbit is an arse to scale past one broker. It was possible, but a pain, that might have changed.

Kafka is just a pain full stop.
GO syntax is so hard to look at.
It is crazy that such behaviour even gets deployed

It is so unintuitive...
And these days GPUs have programmable tessellation shaders so they can semi-automatically make up more geometry as needed.

I remember the Q3A Beziers were advertised as if the game rendered actual Beziers (which would in principle be possible in software but not on hardware… of the day, anyway), rather than just doing dynamic LoD approximation with your bog-standard triangles!
There is also a cap on social security tax, so if you make more than $160,200, you don't pay any more into social security than a person who makes $160,200 would. If you earn $2M, you pay as much as a person making $160,200. Granted, you are also capped on collecting social security, but those people probably won't need it.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/02/should-we-eliminate-the-so...

People who aren't employed, also don't pay medicare tax. This includes wealthy people who make their money by other means like market speculation, etc.

https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/a-closer-look-a...

The middle class is solely supporting both of those programs.
The dark paint was a stupid idea, that never realized.
Now I check, Youtube still generates timestamped URLs with it in the query string. I wonder where the # alternative comes from.
You seem to imply we should have centralized government mandated control over all technology that allows online communication.

Countries have tried this experiment like China and North Korea, and it seems to only serve those in power, not the public.

Let us say we did ban all open source decentralized technology in the US, and all websites that to not follow government rules, and mandate all digital communication in the US happen via government approved apps and devices.

How long do you think it will take before a US president with authoritarian ambitions decides to take advantage of this single point of failure?

Free anonymous and private communication is mandatory for a functional democracy. It has some bad side effects, but the side effects of not having it are most assuredly worse.
They're now reporting degraded availability.

I wonder if that is due to the effect I observed just now where one person detected the outage and announced to org all chat that their project board has the unhappy. Then, everyone in the company begins furiously clicking through the GH interface to confirm...

This looks to be a pretty bad one. I don't see a clean way to "revert" without causing even more suffering based upon the ad-hoc cleanup efforts that have been ongoing for the last half hour.
No, I’m not, because it was years ago, and I’m asking for clarification because what was said immediately sounded wrong to me (I’ve managed a lot of rabbitmq deployments) and you’ve not really given one other than an appeal to authority. guess I have my answer. Can’t find anything that suggests rabbitmq natively supports anything like sink connectors. thanks.
IEEE guarantees commutativity, but does not guarantee the correctness of a+b.

My point is that floating point numbers are real numbers, but the usual operations on them will not give you the same results as the operations on real numbers.
> Too bad it ruined the sky for the 15K professional astronomers out there and a big part of the millions of amateurs as well.

Checkout the latest updates on the new sats, the problem has been fixed.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/no-more-astronomy-photobombs-spac...
> There is no such thing as a perfect circle

A spinning movement has to be a perfect circle, no?
Unfortunately not at this time :(
If a Bézier-based circles with four nodes are too rough, I suppose a circle with 16 or 24 or 128 nodes can be made smooth enough to exceed the laser cutter's margin of error.

If you want to produce a highly regular circle in Inkscape, draw a polygon with many nodes (say, 24), convert it to path, then make all nodes smooth and symmetric.
The guy's video was linked to from /r/SocialistRA and a screenshot of the link was included in a paper about "How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate
Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement." The paper never mentioned Spiess or meshtastic. What are we supposed to infer from that?
Unfortunately, the preponderance of very low value research in the literature puts a significant burden on the scientists who have to sift through a lot of garbage to find what they're looking for. Even if the work is ostensibly correct (much of it is not), it really doesn't do anyone much good, except for the authors of course. But now every undergraduate and every parent's vanity project at Andover wants a first author contrib., so here we are.
I worked as a data scientist for a few big internet companies, and have done a lot of retention analysis (from the ground up). I'd say, it's a hassle for a reason: accuracy. Third party tools seems to give little validation of correct user tracking, and you may have quite different concept of 'a distinct user' and 'retention'. It gets quite deep if you really think about it, both the tracking part and the analysis part. Happy to get into the weeds if you are interested.

Apart from that, I'd also love to hear what hassle free options are out there.
Not particularly, but it's a valid concern to be mindful of. Thank you.
Right, because telcos and isps carry passengers or goods for a fee and they are open to the public. That’s why they are common carriers.

Where you miss the mark is that it does not, in fact, make any sense whatsoever and indeed would be illegal to commandeer someone’s computer and force it to do things the owner does not want it to do. This is quite foundational to our private property regime.
Scientists Recover RNA from an Extinct Species for the First Time
Everything would be overrun by spam. Even 4chan moderates spam and ads.
If everything is encrypted then you're safe... until you decrypt the data on a machine with a backdoored CPU.
The name of MaxDB already comes from Monty's son Max.
You seriously think the amount of money YouTube makes from ads on those videos is not a magnitude it costs them to host them?
The recurring problem I've seen that would cause slow startup is cramming many (require) and (import) in the project core.clj file - for non-clojure devs here, this means including a lot of dependencies in the file called on the startup.

By reordering things to be loaded smartly or lazily, startup speed can be improved a lot.

Another reason for a slow startup is that Clojure must load its own runtime every time. The current compiler is not a tree shaker, nor can it rewrite complex expressions in compile-time, although many clojure.core functions were rewritten over time to accommodate JVM optimizers. However, Graal is here precisely to do at the bytecode level, as long as you take care of all type hint warnings and avoid things Graal can't see during compilation (e.g. deferring evaluation of some expressions for runtime).
That's fantastic! I was recently doing some research and learnt that with ART people who are HIV+ can actually expect to live a little longer than people who are HIV-. I think it's because they have more regular check ups to make sure that treatment is being maintained.
Aren't they still publishing his content, just not running ads and paying? The US government will do fuckall about that, even if platforms are forced to be quasi-national entities subject to the First Amendment.
Yes we do support longer retention - for custom retention/plans, it'd probably be best to chat over email (mike@hyperdx.io). Though if you _only_ need retention due to compliance reasons (just need them around somewhere) - we can forward your events to your own S3 bucket for cold storage as well.

As for DPAs - yes!
They’re just different. People like the devil they know.

The Azure Resource Manager system is much easier to use than the fragmented mess that is AWS.

The problem with Azure is that they’re still catching up to AWS. They have fewer products and the quality is worse.

Really basic issues will remain unaddressed for years.
But as we've seen with human societies once you reach a certain level of affluence you tend to reproduce less not more. Why would we assume that civilizations that are presumably far more advanced and affluent than ourselves would desire to expand? Expansion is fast on galactic timescales, but it's still very slow in the scale of a human lifetime. We don't tend to undertake projects knowing that we won't finish them within our lifetimes.
> I don't know which power structures you are referring too.

just a guess, but they might be referring to what he (brand) was talking about in his latest video about the accusations
Blocking something that's very popular could backfire, and I believe Facebook is very popular in India.
Yeah, I can only imagine their lawyers scrupulously maintain a record of what they told Elon before he did the opposite so they can’t personally be held accountable.