skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you use Termux to host your service, then you can "Acquire wakelock" to keep it available with the screen off. That's an action-button attached to the Termux notification, and I believe also the main reason Termux has a notification (to trick android into not background-killing it).

I have some quickstart notes here: https://ocv.me/termux/
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Hey everyone, just published my first ios app, it's a microlearning app that lets you dive into a variety of topics like art, history, philosophy, psychology and economics
SEEKING WORK

Location: Eastern Timezone (Maine, USA)

Remote: yes

Willing to Relocate: no

Tech: Kubernetes, various cloud services, common DevOps tools, Linux, Python, Go, Postgres

Resume/CV: in/kurtismullins

Email: hire@<firstlast>.com

17 YoE in backend development, web applications, SaaS, distributed systems, data pipelines, internal tooling, PasS, IaaS, and DevOps (including at a game studio).

I have used too many technologies to list concisely but mentioned the tools I am strongest with above.

Interested in freelance & consulting engagements. I prefer working primarily async while providing high-quality documentation & written reports.

My strengths are going to be related to writing backend code for SaaS, setting up cloud/Kubernetes infrastructure, and creating automation or internal tooling. I also had a lot of fun helping founders build their MVCs/Prototypes in the early years of my career.

I am especially interested in working tangental to video games (1yr DevOps) or low/systems-level programming (0yrs professional experience), but open-minded to most projects or consulting arrangements.

Feel free to reach out if you're interested in a potential engagement. I am happy to work on projects within my "comfort zone" or jump into new areas on the job; it doesn't hurt to discuss it!
Yeah we parked across from the Exploratorium near there for several hours and it was fine, I didn’t think to consult crime heat maps before visiting, just followed standard common sense of not leaving visible ipads etc in the car.

What is the actual car break in statistic there?
Infection is when the virus replicates faster than the body can eliminate it.
Is your point that "ban" is the wrong word because students are not banned from reading such books, even at the school library, so long as they bring their own copy?

That's a very narrow and non-standard use of the term. The ban here applies to banning the school from providing such books, and I can easily find other examples where "ban" is used to describe restrictions on a school placed by the district or legislature.

- "Across the United States, many states have actively banned the sale of soda in high schools, and evidence suggests that students’ in-school access to soda has declined as a result." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4658713/

- "Bill Introduced to Ban Sale of Sports Drinks at Schools" https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/bill-introduced-to-ba...

- "Bans on School Junk Food Pay Off in California" https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/0... (that's a state-wide ban)

- "Last year, 44 percent of school districts banned junk food from vending machines, believing that by eliminating unhealthy foods, they'd encourage kids to eat better." https://www.medicaldaily.com/vending-machine-bans-schools-en... (these are district bans)

- In Texas, the "state pulled french fries in 2004 and banned deep frying completely in 2009", https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2013/06/28/new-usd...

Just because the school is banned from proving soft drinks, candy bars, sports drinks, and french fries, that doesn't necessarily mean students are prohibited from bringing the same from home.

FWIW, my local library bans children from using the library computers to play fighting and shooting games. That is a ban. Even if a child may play the same game on their own device while at the library.

My library also has video games to check out. If the state made a law prohibiting the library from doing so, yes, that would correctly be called a ban on providing video games.
Nothing more complex than three great-great-grandparents being German. (Oh, and it was meant as a joke - I definitely don't think of myself as part German!)
I think it's also that spinning disk storage isn't really a consumer product anymore. And the enterprise market is characterized by high shelf prices that are deep discounted for large volume purchases.

Of course you can still buy external HDDs but they've become much more of a niche with most people subscribing to cloud storage.

I think that lack of interest is stopping the market driving prices down. In fact a 14TB here is now over 300€ and before the pandemic I'd buy them for 219€. Really annoying.
Umm, why are septic tanks forbidden there?
Also, there's very likely big downsides to any adaptations for longer life, such as increased cancer rates, which might make it evolutionarily disadvantageous for humans to live that long.

Of course, evolution of humans was all done before humans invented technology and things like hospitals and bandages and antibiotics, so what yielded the best chances for propagating genes 100,000 years ago might not make too much sense to humans today.
>My brother has MS

It's telling that the best example you could come up with is yet another neurodegenerative disease, albeit one with some not-so-effective treatments.
What do you think about the notion that time as a dimension _competes_ with the space dimensions? So time is not the same thing as space (duh), so no generalized "spacetime" exist. If spacetime is like a wavefront, reconstructing its space dimensions as it goes, we can never get out of it, unless we subside into the underlying (timemore vs timeless) sea. A wavefront has rotation built in, but the wavefront itself could also be rotating, around a center, so you have your entangled oscillator(s) right there.. </agistimulus>
I tried explaining to people that you’re dealing with systems that are so antiquated places accept Diner’s Club cards. Accepting a credit card at all was a big deal because you literally copied a number and hoped it worked. People have cards that don’t have email associated with them. Furthermore there a ton of settling nuances. It’d be like building a browser if you were an alien who was given RFC specs.

I’ve worked with giant companies working directly with providers. Testing legalese and reality are far apart. In no scenario would we have the customer “test” a major new feature rollout. We’d have a budget and someone would make a real purchase then donate to charity the good or usually it was office candy for a month. I doubt the budget was even touched. We likely had provisions the prevented a $10k charge on a $15 product, that never happened. The only issue was that it’d skip normal QA (India has weird rules), and usually actually be a frivolous purchase or purchases on corporate and private cards.
I, as a tourist, would very much prefer being able to walk around looking at random things and relaxing instead of being on the lookout for people trying to steal my things or worse.

Also, when on a trip, getting my phone stolen, for example, is much more of a hassle than having it stolen on the street where I live. Bonus points for thieves actually going for bags and such, so now it's likely you'll need to pay a visit to your embassy or whatever to have your passport replaced, too. In the city where I live, if my ID gets stolen, I'm likely to have at least a different form at home, and I also pretty much know where and when to go to the authorities to try to obtain a replacement.

Speaking of SF, I have no idea if my country even has any kind of representation there, where it would be, how I would get there, and how long it would take to have temporary papers made up, especially without a phone or similar device.
Whoah, that's a neat tool! I definitely need to implement this with my scripts.

Thanks!
>I'm torn between the argument that the gift of life is such a precious one that eliminating death is one of the most virtuous endeavors at all – and the other argument where this is peak escapism and a fundamental not-getting-it-what-life-is-about.

The problem with this line of thinking is that no one is ever going to eliminate death, ever. Even if you completely eliminate aging, people are still going to die at some point, whether it's from war, or natural disasters, or accidents, or murder. Making people ageless isn't going to keep them from dying when a piano falls on them.

So pontificating about humans living until the heat death of the universe is utterly pointless. Statistically, even without aging, humans aren't going to live beyond 1000 years most likely.
I wonder if that's more a matter of incapability than anything else, though.

Currently, we have more ability to move the needle on lifespan and illness than we've ever had before, and we learn more about it at increasingly accelerated rates. Doing the same 200 years ago (or earlier) was not really feasible. Today, we more or less have a decent grasp of the majority of diseases that end life.
> I'd also be pretty interested in avoiding P(a crime occurs near you), especially as a tourist

What counts as nearby also scales with density. Down the street is nearby in the suburbs. In New York the next avenue block may as well be another town.
Litestream is a solution for realtime replication of a SQLite database to S3 storage. The application uses SQLite as usual. It allows for recovery with less opportunity for data loss than with periodic backups.

rqlite is a database server that uses SQLite as a backend and Raft consensus for clustering. It provides an API for clients to access over a network connection, rather than clients using SQLite directly. With a cluster you get data replication and high availability.

There's also LiteFS now from the creator of Litestream. It's also a clustered approach but the app still uses SQLite directly. LiteFS depends on a Consul cluster.

See also: https://litestream.io/alternatives/

And: https://rqlite.io/docs/faq/#how-is-it-different-than-litestr...
https://archive.md/bWIoH
Ergodic Literature
Given the long list of things, as an outsider, it seems like this person was quite disruptive to the community.

It doesn't seem like there's a "this one post was sus", but rather, "we've exhausted other options after repeated violations of our rules across many, many threads."

This seems like basic moderation of a community, and good on the mods for applying their rules even to a core developer?
Lose a key and the coin is removed from circulation.

We don’t even know how many coins actually exist at the moment, for example this guy’s — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-55658942

Or with the wiping of the keys shown in big bang theory for example.

While there continues to be steady demand powering things like ransomware, and we know the supply of bitcoin reduces every day, we don’t know the current size of supply or the rate of reduction.
Do you know what happens if those "demands" are met with a response of: "I don't like your tone, please rephrase this as a polite request and I'll consider it"

There are ways of setting boundaries around behaviour in real life. Can maintainers use those methods for this?
You are confusing You-level and mankind-level, it was never about You. Meaning is there, but its not kind to people who think themselves as center of universe and mandatory part of it (we all are of our own version of reality but thats not what I mean).

Life well lived is a life thats easier to let go, believing in afterlife or not. Now what does that mean is highly individual but for most its around friends, family and children, mostly children. Most prople with kids have no problem seeing that meaning in mortality, plus there are even more logical and potent arguments (resources, selfishness, not ending up with immortal dictator forever etc but thats for longer)
You would have to be an absolute moron to willingly submit your DNA to law enforcement. How does this possibly help anyone? Like if someone you were genetically related to committed a crime? All I can see is severe potential negatives for you and no positives.
The article is entirely correct that none of the methods to provide location data are reliable. I do find some other issues with the article though.

> You want to set the language or currency of your app based on the region.

DO NOT DO THIS. I prefer my software and articles in English or at the very least based on the locale I set myself. However, my location would not allow for this, which is highly annoying.
There is nothing more annoying than applications and websites that try to figure out the language out for themselves, ignoring my preferences. Then of all the methods using the location is the worst one to choose from. Further down, the article briefly acknowledges this, but I can't understate how much of an annoyance it is when websites try to be clever here. If you want to do anything, make it a nice little menu that pops up on the right of my screen *asking* me if I want to switch.

> You want to geofence your app for legal reasons (eg. cookie banners).

I guess it is a valid reason, but whenever I encounter websites that do this I also know to avoid them as they clearly do not respect the privacy of their visitors and do not care to hide it either.

The article also mentions that IP location might not be reliable because of VPNs, which is true. But it also isn't reliable in general, as it depends on a lot more factors. At most it gives you a rough potential location but it can easily be hundreds of kilometers off without the user using anything like a VPN.
Huh. I didn't even know this was a thing on desktops. Is this supposed to work with things like thunderbolt displays?
How did you find such an engineer with the applicable expertise?
don't know, not a big olympics person.
unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/20240808040427/https://www.ft.com/content...
> OS window compositors generally add a whole frame of input lag globally to every windowed app.

Is there a way to verify this is the case? In X11 Linux specifically.

Also does variable refresh rate like freesync help with this?
>A world without death is also necessarily a world without birth once the whole biosphere has been converted to immortals.

You think no one is ever going to die from accidents or murder or natural disasters?
Yes it's totally sure, if there's alien live, then it will only be possible with machine learning - given the vast amount of different parameters to be filtered to identify smoke signs in a forest fire.

I hate the term AI. It disguise what flavor of machine learning. Does it mean LLM? Or Diffusion Models? .. or Markov chains? Lol - no one knows what the author meant!
What does that have to do with them forbidding plotting or simply storing crypto data? How is that energy intensive?
https://archive.ph/AVRL9
Japan's decision to surrender was most likely due to the fact that the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria with 1.5 million men.[1] Yes, the atomic bombings were horrible, but the fire bombing of Tokyo wasn't much better. The Japanese regime didn't care that much. When the Soviets declared war that was the breaking point and their situation became hopeless. This point is very often overlooked by US based media and historians (I guess for obvious reasons), but the fact of the matter is that we don't know if only the two bombs would've been enough to make Japan capitulate.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria
Michael Yon has been down there for about 2 years (?). Before that he was in HK and in Iraq. His reporting doesn't have a pro-globalist bias.
According to a video posted in this thread; it is to give people with less eye dominance a chance.
High eye dominance you can see fhe sight without it fine.
I think the focus of the sport is not on how specific your eyes are as you cannot train them like you can muscles
30 years ago in South Africa there was fear about contracting HIV (and so inevitably dying) through the ear via public telephones (which is ridiculous and impossible). Doctors in trauma wards were terrified of contracting the disease. Huge amounts of stigma and misinformation, and little hope.

It’s amazing that since then:
- A treated HIV diagnosis no longer necessarily changes your life expectancy.
- Your HIV negative partner or unborn child will not necessarily contract the disease, if treated.
- Treatment adherence requires just two visits a year.
- Doctors have a ready solution in the case of accidental potential transmission.
- I can’t remember the last time I saw a public telephone.
It's cool to see [PicoCSS](https://picocss.com/) in the wild.. I'm playing with the app and it looks great so far!
> Dismissing unacceptable behavior of others as a “neurodivergent” trait, which is problematic because it creates a stereotype that neurodivergent people are hard to interact with and need special treatment.

Why shouldn’t neurodivergent people get special treatment if they have a disorder/issue? Seems like accommodations should be made to promote inclusion.
Yeah this announcement sounds like the type of thing bad bosses do to look like their decisions till now were sound (they were not). Accepting star liner as a mistake will ask the question what NASA did anyway.
Suppose we hit the SETI gold medal, and meet and interact with intelligent aliens. We discover that these aliens are effectively immortal.

The aliens ask you for advice about how to live. Would you recommend that they all commit suicide at age 100, because it will be so good for them and their society?

Always flip the default and ask, will you switch back.
for humans today. Other animals live much much longer (centuries) and arguably there are species that even could be “immortal”.
> entire datacenter full of pentium 4 powered servers

> Which could be replace by a single 42u rack

Way, way less. A couple of nodes on EPYC with 2TB RAM already would have more capacity than that.
You misunderstood. They were talking specifically about languages that only have ternary operators as a way to do if-as-expression, and why they prefer languages with either real if-else if-else expressions or full switch/pattern matching as expression.
It's not hard to see why beta amyloid (BA) build up is the cause. It's very easy to understand. You open Alzheimer's patients, you see BA everywhere.
The LLM generated e-book thing is actually a serious problem. Have you read any of it? Consumers could lose trust unless it’s fixed. If you buy a book and then realise nobody, not even the seller, has ever read it, as it turns into incomprehensible mush regularly, are you more or less likely to buy a book from the same source?
That type of hierarchy is “open” in the sense that when you handle them you can’t know whether you handled all of them. Anyone can make a new implementation of your interface, potentially in code that isn’t yours.

Also, the options may not share any surface area at all, so the “interface” for all the types may be empty which is a bit unnatural in OO.

But under the hood, it’s just this: a type hierarchy. But the hierarchy is closed for extension, and (this is the key part you’d not get if doing this “manually” as you describe) when code uses the cases, failing to account for a case will cause an error at compile time.
She has big headphones and a low hat. She’s definitely not putting off the same nonchalant aura.
> No, it isn’t sad that we die. It’s extremely important that we do — if not just for getting rid of some of humanity’s worst humans.

So, kill off all of humanity to make sure you get rid of the worst ones? To me that seems... non-optimal.
> Defending “reverse racism” and “reverse sexism”, concepts not backed by empirical evidence, which could be seen as deliberate intimidation or creating an exclusionary environment.

> Overloading the discussion of the bylaws change (47 out of 177 posts in topic at the time the moderators closed the topic)... The later result of the vote showed 81% support for the most controversial of the bylaws changes, which demonstrates the controversy was blown out of proportion.

These two are insane. I'm almost speechless.

The rest don't sound good, and would be enough for a suspension on their own if presented truthfully. So why put those first two? Why put them first?

EDIT: Since no one has linked to it yet, this seems to be the discussion referenced. I haven't gotten to the end of it yet, I admit, but what I read so far looks like one person in particular disagreeing with the prevailing opinion in a fairy respectful way: https://discuss.python.org/t/for-your-consideration-proposed...
https://youtu.be/90eg_erObDo?si=UWgIHL--S7LHkh3c for the uninitiated
Good question. I imagine that for instruction encoding density one could for example encode instructions so that "add4 ra0, rb4" would do a 4-wide addition ra0+rb4 up to ra3+rb7.

Possibly with restrictions like only "aligned" register access, ie an 8-way op can only use regs 0-7 or 8-15.

Swizzle instructions can then handle reordering ala SSE.

Don't forget about 2-way ops as well.
This is hard to evaluate without a reference to the discussion the individual is supposed to have negatively impacted.

This may be anything between shutting down someone derailing the discussion by spouting genuine nonsense, to being overreaching and paternalistic, punishing for not conforming to the preordained outcome of a farcical "discussion".

There's enough of either going around nowadays.
I would have thought that too but at one point I had clients taking a bone loss drug called Alendronate. Looking up the drug I was shocked to see that it has a 10 year half life in bone tissue. So yes some drugs once taken will stay in certain tissues for a very long time.
Nah. We moved out of SF to East Bay for the same reason. It's not safe with kids
I love programming on FreeDOS with GW-BASIC
Very interesting insight. Thank you!

Right now, I’m sure Starliner engineers are under a lot of stress. But I really believe that the program will get through this and end up being successful.
Starliner is stupider than Artemis and SLS?
I suspect that NASA may want to keep Starliner around, given that SpaceX is owned by a man who seems to be getting ever more unhinged by the day and has a history of making highly questionable business decisions.
Does it work? (Do you know of big companies with a ban on AGPL are using your software with the fair source license?)

Another possibility is to make it available under several licenses: AGPL + free but restricted licence.
There's a great video that asks and answers a lot of these questions. For instance, I didn't know you can use replacement legs in professional athletics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfIWxFIVP_Y
X (Twitter) testing removal of like, comment, and repost buttons from replies
Isn't blender good enough? Never edited video in my life except with ffmpeg but I know blender supports it
Is this sarcasm? Functional immortality without a complete redesign of the economic system guarantees the least ethical among us would come to own and control everything with no failsafes. Beware what you wish for.
What a terrible comparison; I believe that the current state of America has not yet fallen to the level it was at before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Fine by me. It never seemed that great to begin with. I hated how it injected its own branded commits into my repos. And it never worked with the submodules I unfortunately have to work with