skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if Datomic’s model has room for something like an “extra-strict” transaction. Such a transaction would operate exactly like an ordinary transaction except that it would also check that no transaction element reads a value or predicate that is modified by a different element. This would be a bit like saying that each element would work like an independent transaction, submitted concurrently, in a more conventional serializable database (with predicate locking!), except that the transaction only commits if all the elements would commit successfully.

This would have some runtime cost and would limit the set of things one could accomplish in a transaction. But it would remove a footgun, and maybe this would be a good tradeoff for some users, especially if it could be disabled on a per-transaction basis.
I sort of don't understand how does it make video searchable... I guess each frame is extracted from a video and some sort of model is applied to it? And each frame is stored to some embedding? I imagine the storage will become huge since, say each frame from a video is stored and indexed!
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This is a pretty silly comment given the "private" options that could have been at gbps speed for a decade+ are still at DSL and Cable speeds. Blind faith in 'the market' to solve these things after it's failed to do so seems odd.
> Has GFM support.
I had to google this, GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec
I remember around 10 years ago when iCloud Photo Stream (the predecessor to today's iCloud Photos) first appeared. At that time, Apple still had a fairly decent reputation for software quality. Things have markedly deteriorated since.

Even then, something didn't sit right about uploading every photo I snap into some giant black box in the sky—encrypted or not. I never once switched this feature on. Not that I'm taking lots of NSFW pictures or anything, but, maybe there were a few.

I sleep well at night not worrying whether this bug turns out to be real. I'll back up my own photos, thanks. And I'll delete them on my own schedule.
Haptics in the Music app will be great but it’s not exactly “new”, considering my haptic music app has been out for several years now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/phazr/id1472113449
I wish these sort of things expired. So many devices are guaranteed e-waste these days. Device lifetimes are exceedingly short. Since you're going to keep the servers running anyway, just let any 10+ or 15+ year old device that phones in to the mothership be reset and drop their account association.
>> However, there are more games that are available for Linux than any other platform. Read about the best online casino sites and real money games for the Linux platform, what features and no deposit promos they have, and choose the best one for you.

Uhh?
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Not for me, no.

But sounds like something accessibility options may also provide, and I can see how it may be better for a lot of people.
I've used both RPi and microcontrollers, though my last RPi purchase was for a unit that's been running my home file server for years.

My thought is that they cater to different uses, because RPi (and its ilk) support an operating system. So you can decide whether you need or want an OS or not. For instance my file server benefits from all of the networking, file system, and so forth, of Linux. It supports, at the very least, a workable UI for setup and diagnostics via SSH and a terminal program.

A microcontroller is preferable for applications where you don't need a full blown OS, and where the size, cost, or power consumption of something like an RPi are burdens.

In some cases, an RPi is overkill but provides the convenience of hosting things like onboard dev tools. And unit cost isn't as much of an issue if you're not planning on selling or duplicating something. And an additional option is a microcontroller running as a peripheral to a full blown PC, where you get the benefits of the GPIO, but the comfort of desktop software tools.

My general advice for those getting into hardware-related hacking is to give both a try and develop your own taste for which one is preferable for which use.
Or if you are at a big company and come up with an extremely hypothetical idea that includes generic enough sounding claims to potentially cover cool ideas that a startup may one day actually solve and implement, you can work with an IP lawyer to file a patent and get a plaque and/or a modest cash bonus as the reward for expanding the big company's IP portfolio.
I'll ask another of the "how is this different" questions - how is this different from https://evidence.dev/ ? Quary seems a little like dbt + Evidence from what I can see.
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Good stuff - Nice simple product

Would be nice to have theme support where you could either choose a palette or upload a custom css :)
Dude, I think you really need to talk to a professional tax consultant and ask them about it. There are so many tax optimization schemes... I think you will be amazed at the opportunities that exist :-) "Where do I want to live?" and "In what jurisdiction do I need to register my business to maximize profit from my operations?" are two very different questions.
The money doesn't matter much, and the electricity is worth rolling the dice on.
Are you saying it isn't very much?

It's about equivalent to a single larger US county (but well down the list from largest).
Holding the country fixed, I think defense spending as a fraction of GDP probably varies less than debt over time? Like, defense spending of course spikes during wars, but so does debt! (Which is indeed how it is often funded.)
Both pictures on local storage and Icloud are reappearing as per comments [1].

https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1csms00/ios_175_bug_re...
Im not making the connections the top comment is. Her SPQR books are nice alternative history from a real historian. At a guess the parent comment is referring to some cultural aspects based on earlier roman and not our current judeo-christian values in the west. An emphasis on biological advancements, moralality that serves status hierarchy and empire, “polycule” style relationships in military and socioeconomic units, a different view on “sanctity of life.” Off the top of my head.
Oh, certainly, the human visual system is batshit insane. But nobody knows how to model it exactly, so trying to fool it with made-up data is not OK.
I want to preface this by saying I don't have a dog in this fight. Not a big react fan in general although I write it for work, and have no opinions on specific routers or 3rd-party state libraries being better or worse than others.

With that out of the way, where is the research showing that this is a good indicator of software reliability? Highly starred projects are left unfinished and abandoned all the time. The thread above goes into details about upgrade challenges. So it seems stars are maybe not such a good indicator of reliability. What about using a star to issue ratio? I've personally seen multiple projects with 10k+ stars that hide their bug reports in the discussions tab. Terraform has a much worse ratio, but would you describe it as much less reliable?

Show me the research.
I live in the bay area and just got sonic fiber to my house.

49 bucks a month for 10gbe.

I have only seen it get up to 8gb in TESTING... I might be able to get to 9.

That is a stupid amount of bandwidth.

I give it 6 months before I get a call and they fire me as a client. Cause im going to try to use the hell out of it.
I've definitely seen high school seniors get a big head!
The comment by utensil4778 I am replying to made a generalization and did not mention their personal experience (although the phrasing maybe suggested that their experience was consistent with the general claim).
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The electric chair and lethal injection have both resulted in torturous, prolonged deaths for some victims. If beheading is done correctly, you essentially die right away.
> compared to actually competitive markets, not local monopolies

...and I want a pony!

Last-mile infrastructure tends towards monopoly unless you provide it through the government or regulate it so heavily you might as well have. There is too much cost in redundant buildout to support competition and it's too difficult to tell dumping from price discovery to just fix it with antitrust. Not to mention for the last 40 years the USA has pursued antitrust with less enthusiasm than a decaffinated sloth, so leaning on antitrust would be an idea so terrible that only a corporate lobbyist should ever propose such a thing (and we shouldn't allow that either, but let's talk about one evil at a time).

Last-mile was the "network effects" before "network effects" -- the game theoretic cheat code for capitalism that all the rich investors dreamed about owning. There's a reason why we don't let the free market provide roads or utilities, and that same reason absolutely applies to internet service. This has been proven again and again and again across the nation by letting the game play out and seeing the inevitable result. Why do you think the game will end differently on the 4,952nd playthrough?
People really need to cool it with the 2024 buzzphrase "regulatory capture".

I don't know which podcast, and I'm almost certain it is some dumbass podcast somewhere, is promulgating the phrase which has been popping up with ludicrous regularity in 2024 to describe every situation where someone is pissed off about something, but the primary reason people don't have 10gbps internet isn't regulatory capture, it is that the deployment costs are too high unless either subsidized by the government (as is the case in many parts of Europe and this instance) or there is a combination of high density and eager market.

"20 minutes from Google's Headquarters" is San Jose. San Jose is served by over 20 ISPs offering services from wireless to 10-gig fiber depending on location. The locations aren't determined by "regulatory capture" they are determined by a cost-benefit analysis.

You, yes you, can start your own ISP anywhere in the country, right now, today. Anywhere.

Remember 20 years ago when NYC gave Verizon exclusive franchise rights and then everyone got upset that they didn't fulfill their end of the bargain? That's gone. Everywhere, it's gone. Anyone, including you, yes you, can get a permit to microtrench fiber to any building in NYC unless there is excess capacity already in which case the party holding the excess capacity MUST sublicense it to you.

Same for California. Same for any state.

Rural Texas? Vexus Fiber is diggin shit up in Tyler TX. Middle of nowhere WA? Ziply is taking the risk.

Doesn't matter if it is the densest or most historically protected city or loneliest prairie town you, yes you, can start an ISP right now, today.

Reforms to the Pole Attachment Act have made this shit is easy now. Easy, but not cheap.

Just gather $100 million so you can pay the $30k-50k per mile (due to material and labor NOT "rEgUlAtoRy CaPtuRe") to microtrench or pole-attach, get all of the permits to trench on public rights-of-way and negotiate the few (if any) non-public crossings you have to make, post the bonds needed to ensure that if you go bankrupt mid-construction there's cash to clean up YOUR mess, hire the network/civil engineers needed, pay for peering, staff an office and support center, and you, yes you, can start your own fiber ISP--today.

Hell, many states will give you money to offset the costs.

If I had $100 million I could wire all 2,300 homes in my Maryland suburb with fiber and no regulation could stop me. If I had $100 million I wouldn't waste it on that (we can already choose from multiple gigabit+ ISPs) I would retire.
I assumed they meant from high use of antidepressants…
If you look at the current things the EU has forced them to open up (app distribution and NFC payments), both of them are things that Apple was already actively monetizing.

To compare this to a non-monetized accessibility feature is a bit disingenuous.

The whole notion of ‘fairness’ is that gatekeepers should allow others to compete on even footing. That can be fulfilled by granting EITHER everybody OR nobody access to the market (but not: only yourself).
Wouldn't (1) create an opening for competitors to enter, thereby negating (3)?
Didn't expect a list this in-depth, but thanks for sharing, have a few things I'll need to check on my own setup that is really similar, except for the part where I run Fedora Linux.

Happy to see another btrbk mention, it really is great!
Same here, keep me posted about a windows version!
The search bar in Finder does a decent job searching for text (recursively) in files and PDFs.
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When there were physical buttons, it was very popular in Asia to enable the accessibility option to put a virtual one on screen instead, because they were afraid the physical one would break. So it was kind of useless in the end.
I've seen some pretty OK porn via the browser on the latest quest. Problem is there's not nearly enough of it, there are only specific studios that do half decent studio-grade first-person VR porn shoots. These actors have to wear camera rigs on their heads, which I'm sure makes the production process much more of a logistical challenge. And that's not many porn consumers' bag really-- if you want amateur, relatable feeling people and scenarios, the best you can do is maximize a normal video window. Onlyfans performers aren't strapping rigs to their faces during regular sex just yet.
i have to sign in to use???
> I don’t understand Apple’s intense internal focus on FaceID only.

It isn't. Just a few days ago the new iPad Air has Touch ID.

Only iPad Pro uses Face ID. For iPad Pro users who use it for work and unlock it hundreds of times a day when in an office or during a commute, Face ID is vastly superior.
I have exactly one ( 1 ) option available to me in term of internet provider.
It’s cox, and it’s sucks.

And I live in a real city (Does New Orleans qualify ? Let’s say yes. )

Where is the free market in my situation ? I would throw money at anything else than cox.

It does exists in other part of the city. Not where I live. I’m within city limit, in a relatively affluent neighborhood.

It’s just weird.
Let me be more precise: There is no reason to believe that fusion is cheaper than fission and fission is not competitive with renewables.
You can't buy things just by looking at the camera, there are forced button presses and the App Store tends to make you enter your password.
This is a weird metric.
It has given us starlink. The market makes interesting decisions.
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Started as a Fusion user, then Parallels on the Mac. Then back to Fusion. Each Windows or MacOS update would break something.

Toggled back and forth maybe 5-6 times. Finally settled on Parallels and stopped upgrading Fusion. Haven't had problems since.

Glad it's free now, but that sometimes means the company is going to stop investing in it.
No, because it depends on speculative execution and performance counters. The earliest microarchitecture where this might be possible would be the P6?

And I don't think there are any more x86-16 opcodes left to be discovered. Some time ago I did quite a bit of experimentation with the 80286 to find what is probably the last one[1], and also looked closely at its "entry point PLA" in die shots, which maps opcodes to microcode addresses. The undefined ones all seem to go to the same entry point, which would be the one that triggers #UD.

[1] or at least, figure out what two "useless" undocumented opcodes actually do, and how to use them together: https://rep-lodsb.mataroa.blog/blog/intel-286-secrets-ice-mo...
same reaction, and the author not using ddrescue just makes this a tale about not following any sort of documentation when installing their distribution. There's really nothing in there that anyone should take away besides making sure they didn't hack up fstab and remove tmpfs.
> because they were afraid the physical one would break

On early models it was actually quite common for the button to stop working after a year or two. The durability has since improved, but habits die hard.
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Parent's argument wasn't that the existent private market was great, but rather that a public utility monopolizing the market might not be great in the future.
Just to read the article, I have to have an ArcGis Online account?

That's not an article.
I think the core problem is that these markets often aren't truly competitive. Last-mile wiring is expensive to do so you typically find whole neighborhoods/towns with a single provider.

I don’t think we need to wait 10 years. There are already countless examples of private providers with out of date speeds, unreasonable bandwidth caps, etc and no competitor to place any kind of meaningful challenge.
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I LOVE Sonic. I also have the 10Gb internet for $50/month and I can’t even use that much bandwidth. Also their customer service is amazing. I was caught off guard when I called in for an issue and a local person answered when I expected it to go to a machine. They also support net neutrality.
This was the high water mark of the Western Roman Empire, but at the time, a number of people were very concerned about the vast amount of wealth that was flowing out of the empire towards the east for luxury goods like silk and spices. This was a time that the rich got richer, spent more and more overseas, and strained the whole economy. (My source on this is Peter Frankopan's Silk Roads. If y'all have competing theories, or more detail, I'm all ears.)
I would have thought they would be more rigorous, since mistakes for them could threaten the very viability of the business? Which is why I assume most are still on mainframes. (Never worked at a bank)
The article isn’t talking about a “government run” internet, it’s talking about government forcing ISPs to compete. And UTOPIA has been providing faster-than-corporate-internet for 15 years, as the article mentioned. Why would waiting another 10 change anything?

Points 2 and 3 seem imagined, and points 1 and 3 contradict each other. Either the municipal net is slow and will be replaced by for-profit competition, or it’s fast enough to shut out rent-seeking, but you probably don’t get to claim both.
Lol, wow, I'd put 90% of my net worth into a bet against this take if I could. I don't even know where to start, gestures around, reality is here, now.
I’m confused. The article talks about a Mac Mini, which is not a laptop. And an old enough one that the RAM is probably user-replaceable.
Republicans always care about the deficit more when a Democrat is president, so the Republican revolution had to do something useful, and they decided to focus on the debt and the deficit since Russia and China were too peaceful back then, and they were wary to go after illegal immigration after Pete Wilson losing California. Bill Clinton, being a blue dog, really had no problem with that (they also got to cut a lot of welfare that Bill Clinton also didn't care much about). But this actually horrified the Republican leadership, as what they say and what they want are usually very different, hence Dick Cheney's comment on surpluses being evil.
I've been to small indie stores and restaurants that don't take credit cards at all. Some only accept physical cash, others accept debit cards but not credit cards (because credit cards cost more for them to handle). If you just shop and eat at big chains then I suppose you wouldn't run into this problem.
>I am not sure what is different, either new viruses, or american cows are different, or certain people did not develop immunity to certain bacteria in their childhood.

It's H5N1 Avian Influenza[0], which has been linked to[1]:

Globally, as of March 28, there have been 888 cases of H5N1 reported in
humans in 23 countries. Of those 888 cases, 463 were fatal. That represents a
52 percent fatality rate;

I imagine that live H5N1 virus will make raw milk extra tasty and, assuming you're not one of the 52% who will die from contracting the virus, Bob's your uncle, eh?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-...
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If that is true of Gaia then that is true of you as well.
The reality is that 80-90% of all water used in California is used for agriculture, and about half of the produce is exported to other states and countries. All other uses of water including residential, commercial, golf courses, lawns and all the rest account for only 10-20% of the water used.

Sacramento, a virtual desert, is surrounded by rice fields, with huge exports to Japan.

Effectively California’s farmers are selling its water to other places in the form of produce.
It would only be a violation if it's purely software locked.

If it requires a chip that supports specific operations, and entry tier devices have an older chip, that wouldn't be a violation.
This might be a case of "nobody needs more than 640k of memory", but well deployed fiber has a very very long upgrade path.

As I understand it, switching out optics and equipment on each end for faster versions is relatively simple (vs digging it up and replacing the cable).

If it's active fiber, then you should be able to put 100Gb+ optics and equipment and be good to go.

If it's PON fiber then it might be a little different, but not drastically.

As for the government vs corporate thing... Physical infrastructure is hard to get good competitive environments in. They're pretty rare, and become increasingly so as companies merge or get acquired.

It's very difficult to get new competitors into a market because of how capital and red-tape intense the process is.

Few people are happy with roads and lawns being dug up, existing competitors have a motive to swing legislation to their advantage.

Running physical infrastructure as an open platform that anyone can access is IMO a better approach.
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Sorry homie, utopia is ten years old. Check the date. People freaking love it. Still.
Apple doesn't have product managers. (More importantly, the hardware has been technically capable of eye tracking since Face ID was added.)
Seems like a good idea in theory, but wouldn't this lead to a spike in stolen devices?
The market works when there's at least 4-5 competitors. That's enough to make monopolistic backroom deals impractical.