skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you can set up a new state the way it always worked.

With either a large swath of population to break away, or with a large army to take over some other population’s land.

I mean even Joshue needed to kill all the Canaanites to get to Israel (it’s the point of Exodus that “your people will live in other people’s houses”).

I don’t think Jedlička is 21st century’s Alexander the Macedonian.
I never understood why Meta didn't buy mastercard/visa as this would give it a greater grip on people's personal data.
> Tor Browser

OK

> uBlockOrigin on medium mode <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...>

I am already using that with no issues, but as you said it could come and go.
In what concerns Xerox PARC, enough stuff on Bitsavers, about how everything run on top of those graphical workstations, in a distributed computing environment.

Likewise ETHZ IT department during the late 1990's used several Oberon workstations.
I agree your question is relevant, but the problem is do directors want to acknowledge that the level below them is incompetent at performance mgmt at a small granularity? Because what does that say about them?
Wait, is this trend being pushed by fascists, anti-fascists, or capitalists? I'm confused.
We've all seen what happens when engineers try to do UI/UX. Maybe you're an engineer and not a designer, and maybe stay in your lane and leave usability to the people who, ya know, study it?
General agreement, particularly on that last point.
What flame wars? Are we getting to the point where pointing to inconvenient truths is a problem? Are you going to ban people for pointing out obvious problems?

Feelings being hurt should not result in a warning. If Americans are uncomfortable with their systems, that's their problem.
Tech Salaries in US Decline
MS SQL server, Postgres and MySQL all support SKIP LOCKED, which means they are all suitable for running queues.

I built a complete implementation in Python designed to work the same as SQS but be more simple:

https://github.com/starqueue/starqueue

Alternatively if you just want to quickly hack something into your application, here is a complete solution in one Python function with retries (ask ChatGPT to tell you what the table structure is):

import psycopg2
import psycopg2.extras
import random

db_params = {
'database': 'jobs',
'user': 'jobsuser',
'password': 'superSecret',
'host': '127.0.0.1',
'port': '5432',
}

conn = psycopg2.connect(**db_params)
cur = conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor)

def do_some_work(job_data):
if random.choice([True, False]):
print('do_some_work FAILED')
raise Exception
else:
print('do_some_work SUCCESS')

def process_job():
sql = """DELETE FROM message_queue
WHERE id = (
SELECT id
FROM message_queue
WHERE status = 'new'
ORDER BY created ASC
FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED
LIMIT 1
)
RETURNING *;
"""
cur.execute(sql)
queue_item = cur.fetchone()
print('message_queue says to process job id: ', queue_item['target_id'])
sql = """SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE id =%s AND status='new_waiting' AND attempts <= 3 FOR UPDATE;"""
cur.execute(sql, (queue_item['target_id'],))
job_data = cur.fetchone()
if job_data:
try:
do_some_work(job_data)
sql = """UPDATE jobs SET status = 'complete' WHERE id =%s;"""
cur.execute(sql, (queue_item['target_id'],))
except Exception as e:
sql = """UPDATE jobs SET status = 'failed', attempts = attempts + 1 WHERE id =%s;"""
# if we want the job to run again, insert a new item to the message queue with this job id
cur.execute(sql, (queue_item['target_id'],))
else:
print('no job found, did not get job id: ', queue_item['target_id'])
conn.commit()

process_job()
cur.close()
conn.close()
The current initial version might very well be innocuous.

Are you going to analyze every update? Or even remember to check online to find the results of someone else's analysis of every update?

Or do you trust Google to never change their priorities with regards to how this extension operates?
I'd argue that there's a fourth, even lower tier: the roleplay micronation, whose "borders" are typically the walls of its creator's apartment, which engages in "foreign relations" by arguing on online forums, and whose "foreign imports" are typically from the supermarket.

These are clearly of even less significance than the performative micronations in your classification. But at least their creators typically recognize this, and don't make claims which get them noticed by the real nations which they inhabit.
No one runs inference at full FP16 precision. 6 bit quant gives ~90% of original quality at more than half memory savings.
Some of the problems you highlight are real problems for sure. I cannot expand any further, there are books on the subject, but i will add 2 more points.

>That's opposite to P2P. We don't want bigger torrent seeders, we want more torrent seeders.

We can have both kinds of seeders. More seeders and better ones as well. These properties are not mutually exclusive.

>Anyone who's been paying attention to the climate change discussion in the past 50 years should understand that "Increase of production" is definitely the last thing we want.

Believe it or not, production of food, housing, transportation will increase exponentially, and follow the familiar S curve trajectory. Human population will increase exponentially, i forecast one trillion people by the end of the century (2.100), one quadrillion by the end of 2.200 and so on.

The environment and earth will be thriving as well because new wealth will be created out of thin air. We will not need as many resources to create wealth, like we do today. Rare earth minerals, petroleum and more will not be necessary in the future to create wealth.
sure, but not a lot of people are going to be running it on their own PC at home - that's what I meant by niche market for hardware.
Here in Texas, it's been 80 degrees by about 8 or 9am for most of the summer. Sometimes earlier or for days. Apparently it currently feels like 110 degrees (air temperature is 101).
The answer is probably the same as why Hollywood uses them in movies. For realism.
Good point. We alleviate that a bit by scheduling our queue adds to not run until after commit. But then we still have some unsafety, and if connection to rabbit is down we're in trouble.
I looked into this: the 386SL has 855,000 transistors while the other 386 versions have 275,000 transistors. I updated the Wikipedia page, adding a reference to Intel's detailed "Microprocessor Quick Reference Guide", which has transistor counts for most of their chips. (I wish I had found this guide long ago.) https://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickreffam.htm
Every time I attempt to look at Rust and it's still so early days there isn't even a way to create a simple desktop UI with it without depending on some completely random library some likely 13 year old made that I instantly give up on Rust and don't think about it again for another year.
This is not "find larpers, check privacy, find crime"

Its "find crime, they claim larping, check behavior to verify"
Sounds like an idea for a webextension
Yep, we process hundreds of thousands and sometimes a few million jobs daily inside Postgres, using Oban in Elixir.

Having transactional semantics around background jobs is incredibly convenient for things like scheduling email only if the transaction is successful, and so on.

You do need to do a little bit of autovacuum tuning, but once sorted it’s been great for us.
Bitcoin hash rate is steadily growing no matter which time frame you look at [1], what do you mean by "craze"?

[1] - https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/hash-rate
> Ownership of the Australian internet was transferred to Telstra in 1995, as private consumers and small businesses began to move online.

A bit of a weird thing to write. Telstra never “owned” the Australian internet, actually they tried very hard to undermine it, with MSN - which most people forget/don’t know actually started life as a dialup walled garden.

There was at least one hard working Aussie ISP that had their own international transit - Connect.com. Connect did ultimately drop their independent transit in favour of Telstra, but IIRC that was the end of them - lack of independent transit meant they were paying the same wholesale rate as everyone else. It was sad to see them fail.

Some friends and I founded one of Australia’s very early regional ISPs, in Ballarat, and I’m quite proud that I personally gave quite a few people their first experience on the dialup internet.

We ended up buying our own transit too, in fact we were the first Australian ISP to use satellite for backhaul, our transit was commissioned a few weeks before Optus.

Connectivity was charged per byte downloaded, but uploaded was free. So we set up asymmetric routing where downloads came over satellite direct from the USA, while uploads went via Telstra. This dramatically reduced the cost of internet, at the expense of a small amount of latency, which nobody really noticed considering that it was mostly dialup and that terrestrial links were very oversubscribed.

Telstra eventually got wise and started charging for total (up+down) but it was still cheaper to do it our way. I think it worked financially and practically (in terms of latency) until the first big cable was laid, Southern Cross. But by then I was out of the game.
It's like a floating Rat King:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king
And they'll get the bum's rush.
Because rightly or wrongly, for serious violence the law considers not just the violence itself illegal, but also preparatory actions such as planning, sourcing weapons, etc. The bright line "when someone gets hurt" is too late, so analysis like this has to occur so that LARP can be distinguished from practicing before violent action, especially when the latter is claimed to be the former
It’s refreshing ti see an open source project hosted on a git other than github!
Thanks for the comment. HFS/HFS+ is a fascinating bit of history.

It strikes me how developer ergonomics have improved as computers have become cheaper/increased in power.

As to UTF-8, we may say it’s young but in 14 months it will be old enough to purchase and consume alcohol in the United States. From other comments it seems like Microsoft don’t think the tech debt is too great so long as they have good libraries in C#
It's not like there isn't a robust history of law enforcement "spectators" trying to railroad participants based on absolutely nothing, including in literal role playing scenarios. Privacy rights exist for a reason.

http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
> which is clearly informed consent, because you can choose not to install it

I don't even know if you are sarcastic but:

That is not how that works, legally or otherwise.
I wish the author would have gone into more about the drawbacks of this. Sure it’s easier to get down to target inflation if you move the goalpost but it hurts the majority of people and only helps asset owners.
update tasks set taken_timestamp = now() where task_id = ? and taken_timestamp is null
I agree with the top post that the title confused me. But reading the article I came away with a very different take than you. This person is trying to define the difference between LARPing and being terrorist. That may be obvious to someone who knows LARPers, but not everyone does.

I really don't think that the police are going to be a problem for people in fantasy gear, cosplaying, or re-enacting a historical battle. I have never heard of it. But LARPing shouldn't be an excuse for people who want to don real tactical gear and weapons and plan mayhem.
Railroads are critical infrastructure and need to be public. They are massively mismanaged, inefficient and that's all on purpose.
> Pointing out that LARPers use fake weapons and operate in the open is a good thing to point out

So you think it is fine to investigate people who play around on their private property for terrorism just because they don't want you watching? To me that seems very scary and oppressive.
We certainly had email before 1989. I managed systems at another university and had a working .edu.au email address there, email servers and a usenet feed, and had left that job by late 1986. In fact one of my systems was a beta for 4.2 BSD and I remember the protocol change to TCP from whatever came before it. At the same time Australia’s TLD changed from .oz to .au. Wikipedia says 4.2BSD came out in August 1983, so the 4.1z beta we ran must have come before that.

The University of Melbourne (munnari.oz) had a leased line to DEC’s Western Research Labs (decwrl) over which all of Australia’s traffic flowed. My systems connected to the Computer Science department’s machine, which had a link to munnari. Netnews was an overnight affair, and email slow. It was possible to remotely log in to an MIT system.
California. Make rules so absurd that companies can't stay in business. Then, make rules to force businesses to stay.

Unreal.
Read a headline indicating this asteroid might impact earth one day.
> These standards will likely make officers go after more genuine LARPers than before. These tips are very problematic if police officers start to follow them.

It sounds like it might be a dangerous time to LARP about and plan terrorist acts. That could be very problematic for those who enjoy that as a recreational hobby. But in some ways there's a precedent for it with flying. Lots of people used to love to LARP about taking a bomb on a plane and that recreational activity has been significantly curtailed. Maybe we're heading for a world where it's no longer safe to plan the kidnapping of state or national government officials and then practice the steps necessary to carry it out, and where we can no longer joke about a bomb look-alike device that we want to take on airplanes.
Assuming you mean negatively affecting minorities, how does that follow from the article:

> Extremism does not exist without identifying an out-group and taking hostile action against it.
Well it wasn't in the comment, they just mentioned a fine, not any other penalty.

Moreover, have you seen how some people (generally wealthier, but not always) treat, say, paid parking? They just don't pay at all, because it's not worth the hassle for them. Sometimes even with the occasional enforcement, they come out ahead compared to just paying the original fee. But even if it isn't worth it financially, it's often worth their time, so they do it without really caring one way or the other.

Anyway... the penalty for shoplifting (assuming they bother to go after you) isn't generally a "pay this fine and return what you stole". It's being subject to everything that comes with crimes... dealing with law enforcement, tarnishing your personal record, potentially getting jail time depending on the severity, etc. Any civil case that you might get filed against you for damages, attorneys' fees, etc. is just icing on the cake, and hardly the meat of the punishment.
I find that typing on a phone (iPhone or Android) these days is substantially easier than typing on an iPad because of swipe. It's still nowhere as efficient as a keyboard in the hands of a skilled typist, but I can often produce text fast enough that it isn't worth getting out my laptop. On an iPad it's far worse, because I actually do have to use the bad QWERTY touchscreen key-by-key.

What I keep hoping for as far as input methods go is a swipe keyboard layout that is optimized for swipe, because QWERTY has a few groupings that make for ambiguities. Someone calculated one a few years ago that puts the vowels as far apart as possible [0].

[0] https://sangaline.com/post/finding-an-optimal-keyboard-layou...
Evidence of modified gravity at low acceleration in observations of wide binarie
Before steam won there was also _WON_, and I'm still grumpy about losing their nice UI ;).
> Because blockchains eliminate counter-party risk for a large number of transactions, provide unparalleled transparency, and give anyone with an internet connection access to global financial markets, enfranchising billions of people who are otherwise locked out due to unsatisfactory local conditions. Blockchain tech will make developed economies more efficient, and will accelerate development world-wide

Saying this doesn’t make it self evident. What exact counter party risk is eliminated by blockchain technology? I know there’s alot of hype around the public ledger, but what transparency does it provide beyond that? It’s not like I audit the entire trail of any arbitrary transactions, which is usually where things like that come into play.

What about fraud?

Also, how’s blockchain better than existing and ongoing open banking projects? They’re enfranchising people today. Look at all the good micro loans have done in developing nations for instance
We were just larping in minecraft your honor. teehee.
No, that was a joke. But only a few very capable people can do something at the same level as GPT Excel in one week. Including videos, templates, etc. A prototype? Yes. it will be bad. If you wanna bet, I'm all in.
The blatant lying from law enforcement that the citizenry has to deal with on a daily basis is underappreciated.

The US has a legal system that permits a police office to say anything, but a citizen must not lie to a police officer.

The Miranda warning is not a good sign - it reminds the citizen that the government can and will use anything a citizen says for its own purposes.
chemistry follows the rules of physics
This isn't "seek out LARPers". This is "how do I distinguish a group of people in the woods running around in camo as LARPers or violent extremists". They found the people first.
Here is a Python example how to use it: https://gist.github.com/kissgyorgy/beccba1291de962702ea9c237...
"Role players will not discuss law enforcement concerns on social media or provide guidance to each other if confronted by an officer. Also, they will have no demonstrated interest in criminal cases involving claims of LARP."

Your resistance proves your guilt. Insisting on your fourth and fifth amendment rights? Noting other cases where innocent hobbyists were threatened and trying to avoid the same? Seems like violent extremism.
Schrodinger’s bullying
> I don't want Netflix to prompt me, "Want to watch the next episode for 4 cents?"

Neither does netflix. Vast amounts of under-used subscriptions paid at a full rate would suddenly get a huge discount. At the other end they wouldn't be getting much more revenue out of those that watch more than average because they'd likely cut down.

There must be plenty of ways of making a microtransaction in ways customers don't mind, many of those haven't been invented yet. I have no idea why blockchain is necessary for microtransactions nor why we all have to pay a microtransaction sized spending tax to the owners of the payment systems every time we spend our money now. Will blockchain fix this? I have my doubts about blockchain but damn, someone should. It seems popular amongst the powerful that they can cancel someone's ability to raise funds on the basis of an accusation alone. Most people hate that idea as stated, except for "$that_guy who I've just heard of and is clearly a creep so that's fine." Who is it today? How did that work out in the past? Maybe it will be more like justice this time than before? Who knows?
Hell, it's something that individuals do.

The cleanest way to get out of a romantic relationship is sometimes making the other person want to dump you and feel like it was their idea.
You're looking at this from an assumption-of-LARPing.

Imagine an FBI agent looking at evidence of Timothy McVeigh at a gun show in 1994. He's selling a flare gun he claims can 'shoot down an ATF helicopter' and ATF hats with bullet holes in them.

When interviewed without charge, imagine McVeigh claims that it's part of his LARPing activities.

What standards would you suggest that agent applies, in order to avoid a false negative?
Link: https://www.orlandoairports.net/parking-transportation/

Orlando (MCO) has:

Local public Lynx buses with red color at front - are located At Terminal A, level 1, at Commercial Lane spaces A38-A41 and serve the following areas: (current bus fare is $2):
- To Downtown Orlando (40 mins): Lynx bus 11 via Orange Avenue; Lynx bus 51via Conway;
- To International Drive (60 mins): Lynx Bus 42 .
- To Forida Mall /Sea World (45 mins): Lynx bus 111.
- To new Sand Lake Road SunRail Station* (3 miles from Airport): take the local Lynx bus stopping at Terminal A, level 1, at Commercial Lane spaces A38-41.
Local buses are also available to Winter Park/ Maitland; Lake Buena Vista, Kissimmee, Disney's Maingate, & Walt Disney World.

(Not counting all of the hotel buses or cruise ship buses)

* Uber and Lyft near infinite transport in addition to taxi’s

By Train:
* The SunRail runs between DeBary (northwest of Sanford) and Sand Lake Road) For more information on SunRail service call 1-855--RAIL-411 or visit: sunrail.com/default.aspx. NOTE: The Lynx bus located on the A-side of the Terminal, at level 1, commercial lane spaces A38-A41 - connects to the Sand Lake Road SunRail station.
For Amtrak service located at 250 Columbia Street, Orlando - 12 miles from the Airport - you can take the Lynx bus 11 to Orange Avenue & Columbia Street - taking a total of 30 minutes. The Amtrak station is about half a mile from the bus stop, down Columbia Street, then left onto Sligh Blvd.

- this is in addition to the new BrightLine

* By Car

- Personal travel, rental car, guests picking you up or local parking lots both on premises and off premises (private lots)

I don’t think Orlando and Zurich compare.

Are you going to walk off the Orlando airport to somewhere else without being on some sort of transportation? No. But you aren’t going to do that at Oslo airport either. You need to take a train or bus for example to Oslo Central Station or elsewhere - similar to Zurich.
Okay, fixed :)
This is so cool, pressed the ON button out of curiosity and its fully working(!!!) thing

Kudos to author
Readql – Read CSV/JSON/Parquet/SQLite Files from S3 using SQL via HTTP
This is a pet project that I created.

I was working on some POCs for a customer and needed a quick
read-only database to query some data from. I did not want to
have a database setup or anything of the sorts. So I created
this for me and everyone who wants to use!

You can query files simply by using HTTP:

```

xh https://readql.jmeyer.dev/test.csv q=='SELECT * FROM s3Object' header==USE

[
{
"a": "1",
"b": "2",
"c": "3"
}
]

```

You can upload files by getting a presigned URL for S3 and
using it to upload your file:

```

xh https://readql.jmeyer.dev type==CSV

{
"key: "uuid.csv",
"url": "presigned.s3.url" # lasts 10 minutes
}

```

In the end, this is simply a HTTP wrapper around S3 Select API.
But I also added Sqlite because it is useful :)

More info on GitHub:

https://github.com/meyer1994/readql
Yes! I remember that too. I wouldn't be surprised.
Where are the innovations? Every bullet point has other solutions or a very major asterisk that is always conveniently left off.

I've been a big proponent of crypto over the years and think its pretty cool technology. I just can't think of any problem it solves that isn't better solved by some other solution.
Plugging bivectors that square to -1, 0, and 1 into the exponential power series and seeing rotations, translations and hyperbolic rotations come out the other side was a mind-expanding moment for me.
My naive solution was to gather everything at one place before sorting everything and backing it up on a NAS. It was a lot of work but I didn’t find anything that could’ve helped me to accelerate the process so I did it manually. After having everything at a single place it was pretty straight forward though. I’m using directories to sort my stuff because at the end it’s independent of software and tags that might deprecate at some point. I’ve backed everything up using rsync.
OSM is basically a dataset. Everybody renders this dataset differently unless they are sharing a renderer. Android apps such as Maps.ME and OsmAnd do their own vector renders.
As far as I know there is no significant overlap between this two: except that both use OpenStreetMap data as source.