skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What would be some consequences of time existing or not?

The recognition of time as a non-fundamental concept reduces the amount of falsehood in the thinking process. Have you ever thought about why time is externalized in quantum physics? For example, if you look at the Schrödinger equation, what do you see?

I've heard in recent discussions that there are attempts to make time responsible for gravitation as well. It seems so convenient. However, if you think about it a little bit deeper, you can see that it's the gravitational gradient that is responsible for time dilation. Interchanging the cause and effect was never proven to be useful. Yes, fantasy is very important for progress, though accepting time as a fundamental part of the universe's mechanics without any kind of empirical evidence is not really scientific.

Einstein's spacetime and Minkowski's spacetime are amazingly useful abstractions. However, time as a physical entity or dimension in these concepts has never received any empirical evidence. No, time dilation is not a proof of time as a dimension or part of the universe's clockwork.
Yeah those are very different drugs.
Rain doesn't have to generate money in order to kill your gig of delivering bottled water to the desert.
I’d like to watch you defend that perspective against society that doesn’t have to serve you the technology you want.

What an arrogant little troll you are to demand everyone else set aside such extravagant amounts of resources for your fetish.
Actually, Disney is incredibly aggressive legally when it comes to other people trying to use Germanic fairy tales in their own works, even if it's completely independent from Disney and there's no risk of confusion.

Citation needed.

In the past decade there have been more than a dozen movies based on the same Germanic fairy tales that Disney has exploited. Disney didn't sue over any of them.

Disney didn't even sue over Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, and that is based on the version of Winnie the Pooh that they actually own. (The original stories and characters are now in the public domain though.)
I was intrigued by the clean interface enough to download it. Then I was asked to create an online account...

Anyway, I think it replacing calibre depends on how much advanced features one uses. Calibre in more than 15 years old and has a lot of "speciality" plugins.
Live YouTube video https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38689924
We don't need strong men, we need strong people.
It does not surprise me how related the US Unions and Mafia were. Seems they learned some lessons on protection rackets.
States like to control, internet state of mind is 100% liberal, and both live in a capitalist world. Internet won its freedom, but freedom did not overcome the greed from capitalism.

Good news is you can still go to mastodon, after all.
Wow 75k is a fortune here. I don't even make that much and I'm an enterprise architect for a fortune 500 with global responsibility.

This explains a lot. I often shudder at the cost of tech products these days. But I guess by American standards it's not so bad.
This is actually a rare instance of the grain of salt being unnecessary. Depending on the type system, it is possible for it to guarantee that the only source of error be in your specification and not in your implementation.
The problem is that any dolt with no talent can learn those tools too.
We are in the stone ages of medicinal and biological understanding. We have no idea what levels or forms of exposure are "safe", not only for humans but the ecosystem as a whole.
YouTube live video https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38689924
Apparently using patents for the reasons intended. Or owning a patent and refusing to let others use it?

Entitlement?
3Blue1Brown makes terrific videos -- he's great at introducing a challenging subject and then making each step clear and accessible. Splendid work!
The vast majority of people who wrote their own websites back in the 90s were non-programmers. And the complexity of HTML/CSS/JS is oversold in a world where nine year olds are already building games on Roblox.
Do you mean 22:17:15?
Thank you for posting this! The moment of the eruption is really amazing to watch!
Shameless plug since i'm a contributor but VerneMQ [1] is a pretty programmable one. You have options from using webhooks to writting your plugins in Lua or Erlang/Elixir.

* https://github.com/vernemq/vernemq
I read in the other thread that non Apple sellers (e.g. Amazon) will still be permitted but you might be right.
Well patents are kinda bad and only signify that someone got there first instead of signifying that they were the only ones ever to do so.

However, seeing this happen to Apple is a bit of schadenfreude, this is the company that filed lawsuits for smartphones having rounded corners.
Seems like there should be a summary of your performance at the end. Maybe take absolute value of the difference between your guesses and the actuals, and calculate a mean and standard deviation for all of the questions.
Except for the swastikas, everything you mentioned is just more lazy stereotyping.

How many times have you met an actual douchebag wearing a fedora? How many times have you heard people saying that all douchebags wear fedoras? I bet the ratio is at least 1:50. It's like how people who insist all vegans are smug outnumber actual smug vegans by a huge margin.
I think you meant `cargo geiger`
I think using the ITC as the forum of choice for patent disputes qualifies. I can’t see why the courts can’t handle this. The federal agency that makes sure the windshield wiper fluid I put in my car is legit isn’t really set up for evaluating complex intellectual property disputes on medical devices.
Lying is just a thing that companies all do now, and it's accepted. People even defend it all the time.

Comcast has a 10G network. Verizon gives you unlimited data. Making sports bets online isn't gambling. Giving your money to a tech company that does all the things a bank does isn't banking. Facebook cares about your privacy. Microsoft Loves Linux. You can buy movies on streaming services. You can opt-out of marketing e-mails.
I would assume the intended use-case is a "pseudo-sharded" cluster.

In an actually-sharded cluster, some scheme (e.g. a hash ring) directs writes to particular shards, and so any given row only lives on one shard.

In a pseudo-sharded cluster, you still direct writes to different "shards" — but all the pseudo-shards also mirror each-other's data, so every pseudo-shard actually has a complete dataset. But each row is still only owned by one particular shard; when updating that row, you must update it through that shard. All the data not owned by the shard, should be treated as a read-only/immutable cache on that shard of the other shards' data.

Personally, though, if I were setting something like this up, rather than bi-di logical replication on a single table, I'd just partition the table with one partition per shard, and then have the "owning" shard be the publisher for that partition and the rest of the shards be subscribers for that partition. Same effect, much less implementation complexity and much less risk.
How does this compare to FlashMQ?
(https://www.flashmq.org/)
Seems to have much more dependencies - any advantages?
A car dealership added an AI chatbot to its site. Then all hell broke loose
Facebook has acquired smaller competitors in the past. Where it hasn't been able to acquire, it's federated: you might remember that Facebook used to federate with MySpace.

> I agree that it's a loud minority complaining about Threads but that loud minority is quite powerful in the Mastodon community.

That “loud minority” is largely composed of sociopolitical minorities. To the extent that they're powerful on the Fediverse, it's because the Fediverse is a place run by and for them.
Why this over kavita or calibreweb?
> The UK (and pretty much every single other Western nation) has an absolute ton of abandoned bunkers, silos and mines that were intended for Cold War disaster management. Most of them were built to very high standards in locations that won't flood or degrade significantly even if left cold and dark.

Here in Germany, a lot of our old bunkers are effectively gone, unusable to a point where you'd need to entirely rebuild them. And that's after just 30 years... bunkers also need maintenance, because otherwise rot and mold will set in.
The thermodynamic cost of separating salt from water is the same per molecule no matter what. It's a fundamental physical limit.

RO can be more efficient than electrolysis. The major factor is that electrolysis wastes a good fraction of the input energy on heating the water. On the other hand, RO requires high pressures, which is energy intensive.

RO is generally more efficient overall, but either way you have to pay the cost of reversing entropy.
Calling the ECJ a "judicial branch" is also an extreme stretch. The ECJ can't enforce a law, that is up to each country's national system to do. It can only decide if asked by a national court or in matters of union law. There is no clear separation of powers in EU because EU is a treaty, not a state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice
There is a whole lot of art that is not "high art". Just commerical art. Graphic design. Not all of it is "paintings in hotel rooms"; it's all over the place. People have jobs in this area.
I don't fully understand what federation means for something like Threads and Mastodon.

Will I be able to follow various users across the Fediverse and view all their posts in the Threads app, or will I just be able to sign in to their servers with my threads account?
Israel absolutely did not "admit" that the stories of beheaded children and mass rapes weren't true.

Hamas absolutely did behead children, and rape and torture and murder dozens of women. That was not made up.

Israel has been showing pictures and videos of the bodies found after the Hamas attack. (They are showing them right now in various locations in SoCal.) Witnesses who survived the Hamas attack have testified to witnessing rapes and murders. Even the few Hamas terrorists taken alive have admitted to both.
In my experience most things you want to do turn out to be impossible to achieve with RDBMS-level transactions, and you end up having to implement the behaviour that you need "by hand" with the database's transaction support mostly getting in your way. So in a subtle way banking transactions are actually a pretty good example.
Right.. but that's why I said "in the future". I know there's little evidence and I commented elsewhere that this paper comes to the same conclusion as the Kurzgesagt vid. What I'm suggesting is with future tech we might get a better mapping of these extinctions and the identifiable causes if known. I'm not suggesting we will find fossils that just don't exist.. but maybe getting a better holistic view of each layer around the earth.
> Peer review is basically Github anonymous PRs that has the author pinky swear that the code compiles and 95% of test cases pass.

It should be possible to use something like Github to *verify* "that the code compiles and 95% of test cases pass" instead of just "pinky swearing".
Everything can be done badly; a digital design can be just as cluttered as a physical one. And conversely, a physical design with few, well-chosen functions doesn't need to be cluttered.

I also didn't say I wanted a button for every function. But this is getting off into the weeds.

My aim was to say that "minimalism" can be applied in different ways. For example, minimalism in the number of features, or in the complexity of the overall system, or in the ease of operating it.
Copyright gives the holders the right to determine how copies can be distributed.

A digital copy of a work is obviously not transformative of the work. I can't rip my old DVDs and say the digital copy is transformative to get around copyright.

A similar example, you can't make an audiobook of a book you own and then make that available to others even though that is obviously MORE transformative than what IA is arguing.
GitHub launched Pages 15 years ago today (2008)
And of course, for every user that used to be an artist before AI, there are now 10,000 such users wielding their new-found artistic intent via prompting.
A more in-depth analysis of which parts of the Kubernetes spec are unsupported by this adaptor would be extremely useful in evaluating it's viability for any given use case.
cool, sadly don't have mac
A major part of this in computing is security standards - old browsers and phones don't have encryption / controls that meet modern standards, plus manufacturers stop supporting the OS or providing patches.

The people operating mygovid & other identity apps would like the widest device support possible but to some extent their hands are tied by compliance requirements and what their security auditors tell them.
On android I've been using Librera[0] for a few years and really recommend it.

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
That obviously depends on your objectives and world view.

In my opinion, it teaches that the NATO should have stayed out of the region in the first place, and the US specifically should be carefully about upsetting regional power balances.

>Devil's advocates tend to glance over the fact that these red lines were respected at the time and Ukraine nor Georgia were offered any closer integration with the EU and NATO

This is not very accurate IMO.

There were significant NATO policy decisions immediately preceding the 2014 invasion with respect to Ukraine. Further decisions were taken immediately proceeding the 2022 build up and subsequent invasion.

The first was in 2008 when NATO decided Ukraine could start the NATO membership process.

This came to a head at the start of 2014 when Euromaidan revolution lead to a change of government.

Feb 2014, Russisa takes Crimea

In 2016, Ukraine was granted a NATO Comprehensive Assistance Package (CAP), comprising the advisory mission at the NATO Representation to Ukraine as well as 16 capacity-building programs and Trust Funds.

In 2018, Ukraine was officially given NATO aspiring member status.

2021 NATO reaffirmed that Ukraine will become a member.

2021 Russa Masses on the Ukrainian boarder and makes the same threat of invasion it has made for 10 years if it doesn't get US assurance that Ukraine will not be allowed to join NATO. US still refuses

2022 Russia invades.

This whole war was telegraphed a decade ago and nobody involved was willing to compromise.

I think personally that it would have been better if the parties involved could come to a solution based in self-determination and demilitarization.
>What does Gen AI and Adobe Firefly has to do with Figma?

Something something blockchain
> If you’re a publisher, creator or brand on Flipboard, you’ll start to see new visitors and engagement as people discover and share your content across the growing Fediverse.

I think it should be opt-in. Users should be asked if their content will be distributed on new places. This is a deceptive UX pattern to push a new feature [1].

[1] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/automat...
Off the top of my head, what you want in a warm car when the doors have opened and a shivering passenger gets in is very different from what you want when the car is cold and you're sitting in a cold seat is very different from what you want when a burst of mild humidity from a conversation or bag of hot food hits the windshield is very different than what you want when you want the interior to warm up as fast as possible without regard to windchill because nobody is in the car right now.

The issues are similar to tying the seat warmers into that single control.
From Plato to Sontag there have been people trying to remind us all that the representation is not the real thing.

Perhaps AI will finally deliver the message.

But then... What if AI dreams the carvings and then drives the CNC? Would that be interesting? Or is there something special about the human being?
> Copyright protection does not last forever,

if they finally stop extending it...
The videos are old, but the blog series is new, Dec 2023.
Another excellent math youtuber is the mathologer. He has humor, great graphics, clear explanations, all while expounding on challenging topics. Here is a representative sample
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFwSIdLSosI
"Keeping Your Mouth Shut: Spiraling Self-Censorship in the United States"
Could anyone recommend a calculous book with lots of exercises (and their solutions)?

3Blue1Brown videos are great, but they're more for building the initial intuition. I'm looking for something that I can practice to "get used to" calculous.
Pure speculation: Microsoft is bidding against Adobe

1. Figma could benefit from the AI infrastructure from Microsoft

2. Figma has outgrown the design tool genre, and is becoming productivity/collaboration platform and low-code no-code app builder. Adobe's roadmap seems misaligned

3. Regulation: Figma is big enough and similar enough to Adobe XD and Illustrator
LSD and psilocybin both have well-documented pain suppression effects.

It is well known among the older ones out there who have taken these. Just ask any 60s/70s hippy. Pain relief would be an obvious application for these drugs from their (and my) points of view.
There's a ton of historical and anthropological reasons to keep the physical copies of artifacts like this.

I dream of a day when genetic sequencing is so affordable and trivial, that we can analyze records like this for DNA from people and other organisms that came to be deposited on these pieces of paper.

Imagine the possibilities of sequencing the geneomes of all the people who left genetic material on these wills and what that could tell us about society and people who lived in it.
> At the moment it doesn't look like flight traffic will be affected.

Yes, in fact the opposite. Air traffic controllers in Iceland were planning a strike, and they've now postponed it because of the eruption, they claim.

Source: https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2023/12/18/aflysa_verkfal...
It's a much more recent design that avoids this particular pitfall. This is mentioned in the tptacek's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38684904
As a double bassist, I'm lucky to fit a lifetime's worth of music in my car.
NS faked too https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14617459
Yeah, if I was polish I would be pro-(whatever would save me from Russia).
I don't think you're even allowed to use a combustion engine near the south pole, due to that treaty.

IIRC, what caused problems when someone right on the pole built a Foucault pendulum and couldn't use a match to start it off.
presumably the implication of a "js library" is that your frontend is written by you using js, rather than declaratively via html(x).
Is there a significant chance this turns into another Eyjafjallajökull situation with huge disruption to global travel, just in time for Christmas?
Hindenburg doesn't short in order to drive down the price.

Hindenburg compiles and releases information they believe to be truthful about a company, which they shorted beforehand in order to profit from the information.

What I am talking about is sending orders only to cause a certain reaction (e.g. by convincing momentum traders that there is momentum in a certain direction).
> We didn't offer them ascension plans but we did repeatedly flaunt the promise that eventually both countries would be full fledged NATO members.

In your opinion, how common it is in diplomatic forms of communication to send informal positive signals while avoiding any meaningful official steps when an action is deemed undesirable?
Maybe the way to use this is to have two nodes but only one of which receives traffic at any one time. With an active-active setup like that, the failover process can be swift.

However, this is kind of a tough thing to do right -- how do really know that only one is receiving traffic? -- and I wonder if there are many cases where it is a compelling alternative to an ordinary failover setup.
Most of the cells in the nervous system (including the brain), as well as muscle cells, last your entire life time
Lisp was well-established in its niche by the early 90s and just about to come (finish?) crashing down in usage numbers. The second edition of Common Lisp the Language was published in 1990, and the ANSI standard was published in 1994.
>>> There are many organizations and industries that will not adopt Rust until it has a standard.

So if you want those orgs/industries to get memory safety via rust, you either need a standard, or to convince them to not require that.
Conceptually speaking they are quite close: both let you write code C-style with raw pointers within unsafe blocks. Similar to Rust, C# also has a subset of Unsafe and Marshal APIs which explicitly indicate their risk for bypassing compiler or language checks when either you know what you are doing or when whatever goal they achieve is not expressible with safe code.
> I still don't get why people hate this so much.

Because it was such an own-goal. They were obviously going to get sued for it, and they were probably going to lose. Some people might not like that it, but it is the reality of the situation. How did they think it was going to end?
Patent trolls by definition do not produce their own goods using the patent
By stopping Adobe from buying Figma. How exactly has the government stopped Adobe from starting a company town?
My core thing is that the OS should by default be tailored to give a good experience for the most common user. The vast overwhelming majority of users will never need profiling, and should not pay the cost.

As a developer myself, I find it totally reasonable and expected that I need to spend time and effort configuring my system to be a development environment. I'm doing something unusual and it requires extra tools. My grandma does not need a development environment.

Even on arch Linux, the number of developers relative to the number of normal users has to be vanishingly small. Optimizing for the rarest of rare use cases doesn't seem like a great choice to me.
Nothing of the sort.

How does this statement reject a willingness to license?
Strong replacement for Ocaml which is also performant and has rich ecosystem is F#.

Technically speaking, Java and C# would serve somewhat different purposes and I would rather recommend Kotlin and C# with the former serving higher-level code goals better with existential types, SRTPs and overall strong type system and the latter for lower-level and/or performance-sensitive code with SIMD, pointers/byrefs, struct generics (zero-cost abstractions) and free/cheap interop.

The only concern is how well Kotlin Native works today regarding compatibility. NativeAOT has seen a lot of work to improve this and scenarios that will never be supported (runtime reflection emit which needs JIT or arbitrary unbound reflection) are now well-documented.

You may also be interested in Bflat[0] which has 'UEFI' as a target or even Zerosharp[1] as a demonstration how far you can push this (which is, of course, impractical, just use Rust :D)

[0] https://github.com/bflattened/bflat

[1] https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp/tree/master/no...
Great idea and work!
Navy Releases 109 Pages of UFO Sightings
not a science.
joking, friend.

I am not really sure how to answer this question, seems like a bunch of skills.
>Will I be able to follow various users across the Fediverse and view all their posts in the Threads app

If it's going to function like any other Fediverse app, which I assume for now, then yes. You can follow people across instances and have both a local and global feed.