skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low speed e-scooters usually don't have independent suspension components, instead using the springiness of the wheel.
How BlackBerry failed to respond to the iPhone
While air is a passive requirement, I would suggest that writing, the printing press, speakers, radio, television, and the web are all more similar. They are intentionally used to increase engagement of content intentionally created.
Don't know anything about Myanmar. But I would like to add that we should not confuse/bias role of medium, the message and participants. In India, I see maximum no. of toxic messages flowing on WhatsApp groups. These are personal have not ranking or recommendations algorithm, just people forwarding the messages which is primarily because of the increased radicalization of the underlying society.
Does it need to be perfect or an improvement on what we already have?
Probably clustered around https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
Can someone chime in with how quantum computers effectively at least double the output of traditional "classical" computers? I legitimately don't understand why its not easier and in some bottom-line sense cheaper just to like double up your (classical) computing power. What is it about QC that's so damn sepcial when you could theoretically achieve the same maximal idealized output with a simple increase in classical inputs?

It seems with QC, there's this collective magical thinking that they offer this magical free lunch that is inaccessable via more traditional means. I don't get what the seemingly non-existent tradeoffs or optimizations that are being made to achieve this...
Would be interesting to reverse-engineer the app and find out how it works, then make an open-source version.
In case anyone wonders what 1-6’s comment is reflecting I believe it’s the idea that convenient big news items come about whenever something unflattering comes out about Biden or fam or some other “protected” government Or corporate figure. Maybe or maybe not but at least all this alien nonsense has died down.
I was interested in the early USSR computing some time ago (well, almost 20 years ago, I'm feeling old). Back then, I tried to find the original sources for the supposed Stalin's disdain for computers.

I could not find much in favor or against it. I would say that Stalin really did not care much, in the sense that he was not concerned about computers either way. He had way too much stuff on his plate anyway: executing medical doctors, trying to claw back power from WWII military leaders, that sort of stuff.

The USSR also started serious computation research in 1948, including construction of a fully programmable computer ("MESM - Small Electronic Calculating Device") that was finished in 1950. It actually fit the USSR ideology quite well, the economy was supposed to be centrally planned and computing devices obviously are helpful in creating plans.

Some early computing history of the USSR is fascinating, with real spies and drama. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sarant

So my opinion: there was no real persecution of the early computer science in the USSR. And it's not the reason the USSR eventually fell behind.

The _networking_ was an entirely different story. The USSR government instinctively was against making communication across hierarchical structures easier.
Clearly not.

It is, however, exactly equivilent to "the cause in the surge in shootings is suspected to be due to infighting within one specific group".
How much VRAM (or system RAM) would you need to run this, and how much processing time does it take to process the reference images and let it generate the fills?
Seems to have been debunked.
Question: does this model only do outpainting, or does it also do super-resolution? Could this model be fed all the frames of a really awful security-camera video, in order to then synthesize a high-resolution still image of a suspect?
I have seen discussion of this problem by anti-tech writers become "Facebook caused these atrocities". I agree with you that it's overstating Facebook's role.

However, I don't think that places Facebook's conduct beyond criticism. I'm very interested to see part 2, as it sounds like there are more positive acts by Facebook at that time. Rather than just the passive inaction which characterises part 1.

But, "refusing to enforce your own policies" is action, and it sounds like Facebook is very guilty of this.
So...too much legacy technical debt. And no political will to do anything. In an environment of rising interest rates (more expensive gov bonds) and lower tax receipts.

Makes sense, given quality of life and city services have been getting worse. And things should (predictably) get worse.
There was no respectable fight. They used the same signing key for all customers AND own corporate mail. It's a stupid rookie mistake. Exactly the type you would expect from a small-to-medium IT department.
The TOS also outlines a number of restricted use cases, which are broader than other models. For example, Llama prohibits any ITAR related use, while Anthropic limits specific usage related to defense and weapons. (There are many peaceful technologies that are covered by ITAR).
You can essentially already do this without the moving parts with very high efficiency using fancy power electronics. Transmissions are expensive, complex, and inefficient.
Yeah, this is the big thing. Honestly I'm not so worried about people using pkg.fun("red") or pkg.fun(25) instead of pkg.fun(pkg.Red) if they really want to, and in some cases it's IMHO even fine (e.g. HTTP status codes, where everyone knows what 404, 500, etc. mean).

It's pkg.fun(someVar) where someVar is accidentally 0 or "" because it comes from 3 functions away.
There's a theory that the original words arose via a mechanism essentially analogous to onomatopoeia. But unlike literal onomatopoeia as in "cuckoo", it's a lot harder (and required a genius according to some philosophers like Otto Weininger [1]) to come up with just the sound that when uttered in the presence of other cavemen will correctly evoke such abstract ideas as bigness, smallness, heaviness, lightness, etc.

The idea that there's something about (say) the sound "big" that makes it especially suitable for expressing the idea of bigness seems pretty plausible to me. I tried this experiment on my friend. I spoke out loud the Chinese words for big and small in a random order and ask him to guess which means big and which means small. He immediately guessed correctly. I'm pretty sure that if you can find a Chinese person who's never learnt English and try a similar experiment on them with (the sounds of the English words) "big" and "small" the result will be similar.

[1] "Cannot the whole of human history (naturally in the sense of the history of the mind and not, for example, the history of wars) best be understood through the appearance of a genius, the inspirations emanating from him, and the imitation of what a genius has done by more pithecoid creatures? Take house-building, agriculture, and above all language! Every word was first created by one individual, by an individual above the average, and the same is still the case today (with the sole exception of the names for new technical inventions, which must be ignored in this context). How else should it have been created? The primal words were “onomatopoeic” and they incorporated without the will of the speaker, through the sheer intensity of the specific excitement, something similar to the cause of the excitement, while all the other words were originally tropes, as it were, second-order onomatopoeias, metaphors, similes: all prose was once poetry. Thus most geniuses have remained unknown."
> We're just making up memories and calling them real?

This has always been the case, you just don't remember it, and the (human) hallucinated details are usually just not important enough to care about.
As a casual Monero user, who's the Bitcoin maxi you're speaking of? Fluffypony? Seth? I remember reading about someone on the Monero core team who started working for a large Bitcoin company but don't remember who it was or what the issue was.
If you read the article, you'd see that the claim is that the storm is only a datapoint in the pattern of worsening weather events, which does, in fact, have supporting evidence-- weather events are growing more intense and more common. This is a fact. It bears mentioning when extreme weather events occur.

I can't make it any simpler for you.
Ok let me simplify the question then, what's behind the surge in infighting criminal groups?
Legit question, how many of you would take a 20% paycut for a 4 day work week?
This altered the orbit of one asteroid around another. It's moot. You have to either eliminate the asteroid (good luck) or alter it's orbit around the sun (those delta-V numbers just got huge) to be meaningful.

Suggesting we have an "actual capability" is just conjecture. It's a NASA project. According to them, the Space Shuttle was a successful program.
Oh yes. Reminds me of the XKCD rand() comic!
Tweets are 280 chars for 7? years now.
Actually - fair enough, I think I was overestimating how much people consider the ability to use the output to train your own models important. I guess for me these felt really restrictive since that always felt like the end game - collect a bunch of data, then train a smaller, cheaper to run model for a specific use case - but I’m clearly an outlier!
What model? I'm looking for something that isn't awkward to carry around or on a bus.
Here, Cloudflare is "the website" because they're terminating the TLS.
I remember back in the 90s, web pages could have persistent music by using a frameset. Put the player in one frame, and the browser in the other frame.

Frames were generally a bad idea, but I always wondered what exactly was wrong with this one. Seems like a reasonable idea, and you wouldn't even need Javascript!
If only there was some sort of digital tool you could use to research further based on the information provided in the article.

Alas.
I've gone through an 11 hour Godot intro tutorial.

Followed EVERYTHING to do with the C# bindings across Reddit, dev chat, Twitter, and GitHub.

Built the engine. Dove into the source. Checked out the C# integration, bindings, and source generation.

Reviewed a lot of past and present proposals including Jolt and Box2d(c) integration.

I'm VERY impressed with the project and it's current trajectory.
You are assuming users visit Facebook to engage with content and that Facebook's definition of engagement is consistent with the users' understanding of it. (One example, merely viewing my brother's photo is not considered engagement but sharing or liking it is.)

I think many people would agree that a dumb pipe in this context would mean FB not ranking and filtering content. I am not saying all users want unfiltered content. I am just arguing against calling FB a dumb pipe. If anything, it is a smart pipe, or a pipe bomb.
I think that’s a very fair point. I definitely wouldn’t let a friend’s kid ride on the back of an ebike without explicit permission from the parents. That said, my money is on the brakes as the culprit based on all the stories of the author. If the brakes don’t work, even an experienced rider is probably going to get in trouble going down hill.
So we're living in the least violent times of human history, aren't we? The murder rates found in Oxford was higher than even the most violent contemporary American cities, and the conditions of some of our cities are absolutely tragic.

What's made the world so much more peaceful? Improved material conditions?
Right now, Godot seems to be experiencing a bit of backlash against the hype. I'm seeing numerous anti-Godot posts on social media from people upset about the way various things work, or lack of features, etc. The recent row over allocation in C# is one example, but a lot of people complain about the UI, 3D support, performance, etc. Of course a lot of that is just Unity shills and people riding the hate train but it does suggest there is a lot to be improved about Godot.

It's inevitable that Godot isn't going to retain a lot of new users from this - most Unity devs will go back to Unity simply due to opportunity cost, they'll bite the bullet at least until they can afford to switch, and most will switch to Unreal, not Godot.

And this is the reality of the position Godot finds themselves in. They aren't competing against Unity, because that isn't possible yet, they're competing against Unreal Engine for the title of "best Unity alternative." Godot doesn't need more hype, it needs hands on deck making pull requests and improving the engine so that when the second wave of Unity quitters come in six months or a year, they no longer look as much like the quirky toy engine compared to Unreal.

And I say that as someone who uses Godot exclusively and wants to see it succeed.
huh? no mention of serializable snapshot isolation (SSI), used by most commercial dbs for years. what gives?
>And sooner or later, we will hit hell, an evil that lurks behind every MMO, the I/O bottleneck in the database.

When I worked on a MMO with a five figure concurrent player count we got by fine with a single database server.

The much bigger I/O bottleneck were with the load balancers.
> Why? Sane networks shouldn't block anything.

Huh? What? Ever had to administer a corporate network for non-tech staff? Malware is everywhere. People are stupid. AND my assumption on a corporate network has always been that you have no expectation of privacy - its a work network, don't use it for personal stuff! Pretty simple.
Trust me. Everyone was aware of it.

The thing is that his advice offered there isn't even particularly bad. But he'd just taken the importance of being confident when hitting on women to a ridiculous extreme. With no self-awareness.

My ex found an unattractive cripple introducing himself. She didn't know who he was. His pass was essentially, "I'm worth $30 million. You may touch me. I might fuck you later." Her response boiled down to, "Eww."

She was shocked to later find out that his first line was actually true at the time. (This was a few days after https://lwn.net/1999/1216/a/esr-rich.html.) But, that notwithstanding, her response remained, "Eww."
How do you avoid that at Bruno v1.0.0 ? I means Postman playbook > vc funding
Usually the dumber thing is the true thing, I doubt this was some three dimensional company strategy (and it doesn't make sense for that to even be the case if you think it through).

I wouldn't be surprised if the CEO gets fired for this given how strategically misguided it was and the fallout it caused, that's the kind of change probably required given the error to help claw back any amount of lost trust they can.

Apple is probably annoyed they became friendlier to Unity (in order to punish Epic), looks like not a great choice in hindsight.
I sure do wish we weren't the only two people in "civilized" nations that think along those lines. Right now on this planet (for a fairly long while now) most of the technology and knowledge to create near Utopic societies exist, but ain't gonna happen, because "mo' money" and "more power (but only for me)" is the ultimate goal of most humans. :(
Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency can be converted to monero, which can then be used to pay (or converted back to BTC to pay) via any number of shady coin conversion services.

Bitcoin can also be anonymized via coinjoin like samurai or Wasabi, although Wasabi is not recommended: https://medium.com/oxt-research/a-statement-on-two-discovere...

In fact, if you're truly trying to be as as anonymous as possible with privacy redundancy, coinjoining before converting to XMR is your best course of action.
I don't believe you. A quick google search finds several charts showing monotonic increase and zero charts that show a decrease.

https://www.ibisworld.com/us/bed/percentage-of-households-wi...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/748551/worldwide-househo...
That would be under 1 kg of gold. For that small an amount, there will only be a small handful of private buyers, and their offers won't be anywhere near the amounts shown on commodities exchange tickers.
"it's a device for analyzing wireless signals"
That was the most subversive comment I've ever read. I was certain you were going to enumerate all your actions and then conclude that Godot was terrible. Well done I guess?
They have, but all of them are "personalized" attacks - as in, a malicious person needs to install these on specifically your computer, without your knowledge. What I was talking about is some kind of device from some noname Chinese manufacturer that presents as harmless, but actually sends off some additional data back home
What's your method for "double tunneling" as, on Windows at least, you can't run two VPN providers at the same time as far as I've seen. I'd love to know if that were possible. I've seen mention of a tool that allows groups of trusted individuals to use each other's VPN connections to create a tunnel, but that's with each computer running a different VPN service.
I'd certainly suggest building an MVP with a low-code platform isn't a good use of resources unless your actual devs are all flat out doing other stuff and there are spare resources on the product team capable of putting something together with such a tool.
> Could this have happened with Twitter for example?

It did - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/09/twitter-c...

FB was much more destructive simply because it was part of FB's Internet.org initiative [1] which drove FB adoption.

> It’s not clear to me how much the government wanted the genocide to happen.

The Arakan National Party, the primary party in Rakhine/Arakan, is anti-Rohingya and its leadership participated in the 2012 riots along with the 969 movement. They entered a coalition with the National League for Democracy (Aung Sang Syu Ki's party) and even got an Ethnic Affairs Minister [2] - that they held on to during the Genocide.

That said, the issues in Rakhine were further exacerbated by the India-China rivalry, as both countries turned a blind eye to the Tatmadaw and would arm ethnic militias within Rakhine and across Myanmar in general, as Myanmar is a buffer between the two countries, ethnic issues in Myanmar blowback across Southwest China (eg. Kokang Chinese * ) and Northeast India (eg. Manipur Ethnic Violence **), and both India and China have competing defense and infrastructure projects within Myanmar [3]

A lot of this could have been avoided if Jinnah annexed the Rohingya majority regions of Rakhine into Pakistan like Rohingya asked in 1946 [4]. It's sadly another forgotten chapter of Partition and decolonization of the British Raj

* If you live in San Francisco, most ethnic Chinese in Chinatown are now Kokang. They own most of those trendy Burmese restaurants like Burma Love and Manadaly

** The Myanmar subgroup of the Kukis (Chin/Zo) have a significant presence in SF and Daly City as well.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arakan_National_Party

[3] - https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/how-china-indi...

[4] - https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/rohingyas-and-the-unfinished...
If I remember correctly, the flight data feeds are on a delay, so I'm not sure just how good dead reckoning would be to get actual current position. A possibly goofy idea would be to use position feedback to train an LLM for ?more? accurate forecasts. eg. it is a fairly likely thing that 737s around Los Angeles will be flying racetracks or in the pattern, maybe some kind of LLM could learn that?
What Is a “Canary Account”? (2009)
What does this break?

I always want either UTC or the user's timezone (that is, the person using the interface, so that "your meeting next week at 13:00 in Europe/Amsterdam TZ" is accurate).

I don't think I ever want the database's timezone. I never care about it, so just setting to UTC always seemed to work for me?
lack of flow, as if it were a concatenated collection of notes that were not worked together in a final pass
This comment just recites the popular myth which makes zero sense, especially in the context of the video in OP, which is about a soviet computer.

Cybernetics has nothing to do with computing or computers at all; it was a very opinionated attempt at explaining natural and social phenomena in terms of some narrow snippets of control theory. Nothing from that media panic "set USSR back" in computing; the control theory was being used in engineering (case in point: R-7 with a SOTA control system), computers were being developed (BESM-6 was introduced long after the moral panic caused by Wiener's book ended), etc.

The real cause was the engineering tradition (and planned economy which led to twisted economic incentives). Soviet engineering school has been influenced by the German one for half a century, and was really slow at picking up computer science and software engineering as separate disciplines; both were mostly seen as some unimportant subset of applied math. It wasn't some ideological bullshit, just genuine inertia. By the time US programmers had a strong software development culture, Soviet programming culture was stuck at the pure math level. Just read any Soviet textbook or programming manual from that era and you will see the difference immediately. Hardware development has been following suit, struggling not just from the lack of the expertise in high purity chemistry (traditionally weak point of Soviet physics and engineering) and semiconductors, but also from the lack of direction set by the software development and economic incentives. That's why the Soviets decided to copy IBM - and the computer in OP is an IBM PC clone. Not because of the cybernetics (the panic was unrelated and died long before that decision) or any other reason.

>that it would never catch up

Hardware, sure. The software development eventually started to catch up around mid-80s, when the Soviet computing craze has started with first personal computers that were more or less accessible to the population.
If people can understand this article but why can’t they understand China banning western social media? In this case Facebook’s intention was to drive engagement, who’s to say it won’t be used by adversaries to selectively drive narratives?
I learned a lot from this wikipedia page, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who has read it (you posted it so that's evidence enough that you read the entire sordid article).

edit: I'm joking. It's full of funny stuff, the names they gave these streets and areas is hilarious. And, it feels creepy to read it, I'll be honest!
IronNet Ceases Operations, Terminates All Remaining Staffers
Love this.

I was just implementing dragging an SVG element in a Vue app earlier this week, and had to discover pretty much everything the author describes in the article, even in the same order the author describes them, and ended up with pretty much an identical component to do so (except I wrote a composable utility `useDragging` instead of a functional component `<Draggable>`).
Could you link to the specific tutorial?
Cerberus seems to use some custom schema format, rather than a standard like JSON Schema?
Ask yourself: what does casting do?
Ha, tapping into negativity is a great way to grab attention (see all news sites now) but that wasn't my intention lol.
> Climate change is an important factor in causing more wildfires

Afaik, there's very little concrete evidence to support this claim.

There are many headlines, so please don't bother posting a bunch of junk links. I know they exist.

Hard science? Not so much.
> This tech will eventually become mundane and available everywhere

It probably won't, due to sheer physics, and the cost of dealing with them. However, what it will do is drop the price floor out of lower power applications - no longer will that level of tech be competing for the high end. It's exciting!