skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect a major reason why CRDTs haven't been a clear dominator in VCSes is that the "conflict free" decision is not necessarily the correct decision. It's merely a consistent one.

When editing is relatively "live", those are small enough that they're probably also correct. But adding your month of changes to a dozen other people's month of changes doesn't mean it's going to build correctly (or even look sane) when you change the same file. Manually seeing the issue and fixing it gives you a chance to correct that, at the time it's relevant, rather than "it all changed, good luck".

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If you're interested in distributed-VCS systems that have some different semantics than git, https://pijul.org/ might be interesting. And Jujutsu is... complicated, as it abstracts across a few and brings in a few things from multiple VCSes, but it's mostly git-like afaict: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

No doubt there are others too (if anyone has favorites, please post! I'm curious too)
But it isn't the "exercising" of the immune system that provides the benefit, it's training it to recognize a new virus. If that could be done without a huge immune response it would be just as effective. The immune system isn't any stronger after a vaccination, it's just smarter. Presumably exposing the immune system to several unrelated viruses provides no benefits as to how it can deal with the target virus.
Well, yeah, productivity has continued to increase without commensurate decrease in working hours.

That doesn't necessarily imply that all working hours are productive, instead we seem to need to fill them with something, and meetings meet the requirements. Or in other words

> The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) - Stafford Beer[1]

Meetings serve to look like you're doing something and they take up a lot of time. They serve the purpose precisely.

Rather than try to decrease meetings and increase productive working hours, we should take the cue, read the room, and match the cure to the diagnosis, and do what Keynes predicted[2]: work 15-hour weeks. It's what we're doing already, we're just afraid to admit it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

2. http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
I recommend the youtube channel Posy. He only uploads about once a month but every time it is an exploration of something that seems so simple but it sparks that child like wonder in the world. The good sense of humour helps as well.

https://www.youtube.com/c/PosyMusic
Standard deviation of human height (within a single sex) is about 7cm. If human height changes over the course of a day by 1.5cm, assuming it linearly declines over the day, that's a stddev of about 0.6cm. You also can reasonably assume that people are normally going to be measured at the doctor/researcher's office during business hours, so it's probably more like 0.4cm. The measurement error of just standing up straight or not and reading the numbers is probably more.
Yeah, I should have said with rather than for. They're doing server side verification of the TEE environment using their protected download service from what I can tell.

https://github.com/google/private-compute-services/tree/mast...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ free speech is free speech even when you don't like the way it's used. Your right to say what you want doesn't supersede my right not to grant you a platform or even give you the time of day. Even Ben Franklin "moderated" the content of his newspaper. He didn't feel that free speech obligated him to print anything he was given. So this isn't a radical new concept.

Freedom of speech and freedom from speech are two sides of the same coin, just as freedom of religion is also freedom from religion. Moderation isn't a violation of free speech, nor is it a farce. It's free speech being exercised as it was intended.
As with anything, the middle way is probably a better option. Enchantment is good - to a point.
Better world books is better. Try them in the future. You can even get really good used copy for much less on most books.
I bought a paddle board, nipheane or something like that for $200 from amazon last month. Previous one I bought is a body glove one from Costco for $499. All things considered, it's a smaller and lighter board and blows up twice as thick.
It's like sometimes crappier build makes things lighter and more portable. So overall i was happy with the trade off. Even if it lasts half as long. I just bought it for summer BC camping trip and gifted it at the end. If it was $500 i probably would not have bought it for such short use.
The thing is we do know it can't happen. We had Chernobyl.

It's the worst case for a runaway reactor. Did it cross the prompt critical line or not--I don't think this will ever be resolved but it doesn't matter. We saw what happens--power level through the roof, destroys the reactor, other than the radioactivity it didn't do much.

It's also the worst case for a China Syndrome. Nothing happened, as a lot of the more sane people thought would be the case. The molten reactor core burned through the reactor floor but was no longer in an ideal configuration and thus no longer critical. (And it could not be critical as the moderators were destroyed, which would inherently take it subcritical.) Note that this is inevitable--the margin between critical (below which you don't get the heat to burn into the ground) and prompt critical (where it destroys itself and thus ceases melting) is very narrow.

It's also the worst case for a radioactive spill. No containment dome, fire in the reactor contents. The supposed thousands of radiation deaths simply did not show up. We have about 90 that are clearly caused by the accident. We have a huge variation in the estimated numbers since then, the first that looks reasonable is the UN estimate of 4,000--to a large degree in the people Russia sent in to deal with the situation without proper safety equipment. For comparison the largest coal disaster was 1,500 dead--and I doubt you've ever heard of it.
Well it's actually the font designers at fault here and not a CSS issue.

See more here: https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/

But so much time is being wasted on developers fine tuning magic numbers that the browsers are extending CSS to automatically fix the font developer's mistakes.
I never supported the idea that we should turn our backs on modern technological advances. Of course these have improved our lives.

But going back to your example, why are you trying to rationalize the fact that now two children are dead from hunger? If anything, the overall economic growth in your example and all the additional available resources should have made certain that not even a single child died.

And yet, here we are, with more that 8 billion people on the planet, all our technological advances and all the resources that we have and still, 1 out of every 10 people on the planet faces hunger. There is no sugar coating this. It is a tragedy.
That's not really a consequence of US policy though, that's a consequence of private universities in the US being better. You could argue that is a consequence of policy but that's a fairly downstream effect and I'd argue that Canadian policy is to improve Canadian institutions is the solution so it's still in Canadians hands.
Yes, it's exceedingly rare. But it's one of those "avoiding this activity for an hour could prevent you from dying painfully" things, so we don't shower/bathe/wash dishes when there's lightning.
> America is a racist country. But the racial quotas in Ivy League Universities are perfectly fair

One I realised I fell into was universally condemning everyone from places I hadn’t been as ignorant. I think what stalls the self awareness is that you think you’re just joking. But you’re not. You’re socially reäffirming a stereotype.
Is that a consequence of US or Canadian policy?
When people walk into a restaurant - fast food, slow food - especially before COVID, do you see people go to the bathroom to wash their hands before the meal? That never happens.
There's only so much maneuvering space, and so much time a single brushing session takes; perhaps the error of double integration is small enough they can get away with dead reckoning. Especially since you mouth is a small, confined space, so they could estimate its bounds and use that to further correct their position estimate.

(I imagine a system like this would need at least two accelerometers - one close to the tip, and another one in the grip area; the second one would be used to cancel out the movement of users' head and body, allowing the first one to effectively operate in a mouth-relative coordinate system.)
I’m not saying this is a bad idea but it’s hilarious given the point of the post is to uncomplicate note taking.
Same for me. I have an account with zero karma on it. When I created it I was a total programming novice fresh out of uni and could not really contribute. As time went on, I could definitely have started contributing, but not having any karma became too high a barrier of entry - I'm using it during my work hours, I can't just spend endless time grinding.
> total avoidance of germs is quite harmful

This isn’t the argument being made in the article.
Sure there is. Apple added new tools to do this even for dynamic libraries too!
there are ways (byref I think?) to pass references to stack variables around. And Statics depends. Static const even with stuff like strings would just compile directly into the binary, regular static still has to end up on the Heap.
Sorry for focusing on the money aspect.

I agree with a lot of your bullet points, particularly your characterisation of faang, but the overall message that a single software developer can’t make much impact is needlessly negative.

Compared to any other worker throughout history you’ve got more access to being able to duplicate your work and to reach more people. A peasant in the 1500s could help just one person at a time. But what’s actually stopping you? You can publish open source software that is not limited to helping 1 person at a time, or create educational content that helps more than 1 at a time and so on, or contribute to existing open source software to do the same. It’s such a privileged position you’re in.
Downvoters may think this is an argument against universal healthcare, not realizing that it’s really an argument against a particular style of universal healthcare. Some countries, such as France and Switzerland, have a private sector that parallels the public sector, providing that escape hatch that Canadians are missing (unless, as you say, they cross the border to Bellingham or Buffalo, and can pay the US’s astronomical out-of-pocket expenses).
I work in the security field and hiring competent technical people is harder than it sounds for businesses with small profit margins.
Geometric algebra was, for me, an easier on-ramp to more advanced topics in mathematics, leveraging the geometric intuition built into these objects. I learned vector algebra in university, so extending the idea of a direction with magnitude and orientation into areas and volumes with direction and magnitude was a manageable step. Projective algebras similarly allow the construction of points, lines, and planes with orientation and magnitude. Learning that you can generate transformations by dividing one object by another was also really neat. Then you can take the logarithm of that transformation to perform linear interpolation. Geometric algebra is a tool that I use to manipulate geometric objects as easily as I would manipulate real numbers.

The hard part was getting there amidst a host of confusing and conflicting source materials, as this post highlights, and as its author helps proliferate. I used Eric Lengyel's materials a lot in my journey, but I really dislike his decision to represent points as vectors. Notice how every transformation in his poster [1] uses the antigeometric product and antireverse? These operations are only necessary because he's defined everything in the point-based dual space and has to bring everything back to the plane-based space to perform transformations. But he has a wiki and posters, and I'm just here doing my own thing, so I guess that's that.

Alan MacDonald's two books [2] were great, and I would recommend them as an introduction to geometric algebra. Work through the examples and you will learn the material.

[1] - http://projectivegeometricalgebra.org/projgeomalg.pdf

[2] - http://www.faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/index.html#geometric...
That was the Canadian governments choice.
We all earned the money. Nobody makes 100M in a vacuum. That sort of profit only comes from taking full advantage of a country's infrastructure, its educated population, its safety from invasion. We all provide the society that allows someone to amass that much wealth, and we all deserve a piece of the pay out.
Oh yeah I agree lack of Linux support is a major issue. Just even without it there are so many other issues I dunno that Linux support helps much.
Apple also has this too for developers that have large assets that they need on-demand. Code is not allowed to be downloaded.
I honestly didn't expect such an interesting legal story from the title.

* When the government seized physical property to pay for the legal judgement, did they also legally seize the intellectual property, i.e. Shkreli's interest in the copyright? I assume so, but it's not explicit.

* How does this supposed "50 percent of the copyrights" work? Does that mean PleasrDAO also only owns "50%"? Does that give them the right to grant licenses or pursue infringers, or not?

IANAL but if the IP was seized, then it seems PleasrDAO now owns it (or 50% or whatever) and Shkreli does not, so he's infringing if he makes additional copies or "performs" his non-seized copies for others.

On the other hand, multiple entities (government, auction purchaser, PleasrDAO, everyone who did business with them) may have misrepresented the rarity of asset related to the thing they were selling, and that's a problem for them to fight over. For copies already made, they have no grounds to try to seize them.
"Let me also state that, residing in a European city, I do tip my (cheap) barber every time I go because I feel they do an outstanding job at 20% less the price than most competitors, and that work deserves praise in the form of a tip."

Do you also tip your local bike shop or computer store when they sell you a computer or bike that is outstanding and costs 20% less than most competitors? Do you tip your car salesman? Do you tip your bus driver when he/she is 20% faster?
I think you should look into a mirror and think hard.
I don't think the built-in tiling in Plasma was ever meant to go mucher deeper than what's in Windows. You're still gonna need to use extensions if you want full tiling, I think.

There are two KWin scripts that can be used to add tiling functionality into Plasma 6, which are Kröhnkite and Polonium. Not sure which of the two is better. If you want to use a window manager separate from KWin, I believe i3 still works.
It is a bit more nuanced than that. An incorrect unstated assumption here is that schizophrenia or depression is a singular disease rather than a group of observable symptoms where any two cases may or may not have the same underlying cause.

There are certain types of schizophrenia that are highly heritable and others that are more sporadic. Highly pathogenic variants tend to be very rare because those regions of the genome are under evolutionary constraint.

GWAS are used is to figure out which genes may be involved in the pathology. So we are essentially looking at rare cases of inherited disease to figure out which genes might play a role in more common non inherited versions.
That's not a bad one, although issues of police brutality and overfunding definitely aren't unique to the US
> being against nuclear was and still is to some extent the core idea that unites all green parties

Are there green groups that support whaling? Coal-fired electrical plants? Global climate change?

There are any number of other problems that "green parties" have in common. Having said that, it's important to note that Greenpeace and Sierra Club are not green parties, but non-profit organizations.
They generally don't give ouy things that can kill you...though might be useless. Doctors on the other hand ... let's just say cemeteries are filled with people that listened to their doctor
I find it a good litmus test for people. If you want to broadcast your low impulse control and bad decision making history, be my guest.
Author here. This post was from a few years ago but from memory I controlled for that. So the problem wasn't FFI.

I loaded the whole history into wasm before I started timing, then processed it in an inner loop that was written in rust, running in the wasm context itself. There were only 2 calls to wasm or something. The 4x slowdown wasn't FFI. The algorithmic code itself was actually running 4x slower.

It'd be interesting to rerun the benchmark now. I assume compilers are better at emitting wasm, and wasm runtimes have gotten faster. I'm sure I've still got the benchmarking code around somewhere.
I don't subscribe to your eugenicist ontology.
Or panicking and trying to turn the wave like CNN'n'co.
15 hours at marathon pace (70% effort) per week is probably on upper limits of sustainable effort by humans. If you go at 20-40% effort , you get to 40 hour weeks.
It's hard for me to think of many equivalents of video game cheats to professional sports in the sense that most "cheats" for professional sports that I can think of don't "play" the sport for you. A normal everyday joe can't just wake up and start taking steroids one day and place anywhere near the top in olympic or power lifting (or even anywhere near the middle class of amateur, clean competitors who have been training for a few years). Nor can he do blood doping and hope to compete against world class cyclists. Or in any way go up against and win bouts with masters of various martial arts. In one way or another those methods of cheating still require incredible amounts of effort, training, etc. to utilize. But a video game cheats like auto aim, wall hacks, radar, or the more blatant ones like infinite health, speed hacks and the like let someone with no skill or preparation just jump in and casually outcompete even the best of the best in a way that allows for little to no opportunities to outplay them. I'd say it's less like using steroids and more like showing up to a deadlift competition with an industrial crane.

To get to the point, I think this is why less people seem to care in non professional sports if some random guy who is on performance enhancers shows up to your amateur soccer match or pick up basketball game. The gap at the amateur level between a clean amateur and cheating amateur is not so large and certainly overcomable if the clean amateur has more training.
Between May and July of 2023, Hanes transferred $47.1 million of the bank's funds to the fraudulent scheme. This ultimately led to the bank collapsing, with equity investors losing $9 million and the FDIC footing the bill. "There were people who lost 70, 80% of their retirement" as a result of their investment losses, stated a community member.

Woof. Not sure what was his game plan. Smuggle out $47 million in three months, double it in crypto, return the original, and sit pretty?

If the bank compliance controls were so bad he could sneak off with that much, he probably could have just squirreled away a couple of million without anybody noticing.
But….net is everything! And also nothing ! It’s a product? It’s a suite! It’s a system !

Visual Basic .net ! What ?
Becoming a B2B company fundamentally changed Amazon's business model.

Previously (B2C): incentivized to deliver great customer experience to make money on increased sales volume and higher-price purchases

Now (B2B): incentivized to deliver easy seller experience to make money on increasing number of sellers and sales volume

To be fair, Amazon still cares a surprisingly amount about its end customers, when it doesn't need to, as a legacy of its rabidly awesome B2C days...

... but over time the company will continue to errode and optimize itself to its current customers (sellers).

Why doesn't Amazon do more to strategically combat fakes / bad products? Because sellers literally don't care about that. It's not a priority for them, so it's not a priority for Amazon.
Shipping Tumblr and WordPress
I got shocked by a no-name USB-C charged my wife got off Amazon.
I assume it's intended to be used in an educational context. Learning how to work with a simple API is more fun that way.
What you said, plus applications use a ton of RAM and are a pain in the ass to distribute.
One idea I read on Reddit is to only let people borrow against their cost basis, rather than the gains. If you want to borrow more, you're forced to sell your stock.
You explicitly call out imap and other email protocols. Can this be applied to LDAP?

LDAP (think Active Directory if you are short of imagination, and/or experience).

A lot of connections use STARTTLS on port 389 instead of full on explicit TLS on port 636. Then there are the other two ports for the "global catalogue" which I think is basically a Win NT style domain flat lists for users and groups on 3268/tcp and 3269/tcp.

I've always had my suspicions about STARTTLS but it looked quite convincing to a sysadmin and was always encouraged by the sort of people who use terms like: "best practice". I'll start dumping it from now on. This will take a while.
It's probably not going to be accurate to a single tooth, but to a region.
I'm having a hard time seeing a negative side effect of this. In urgent situations the kid can be contacted and contact their caretaker through the school.
I have been pleasantly surprised by NopeCHA[1] which is free for 100 captchas a day. I often see it valiantly solving several in a row while I am busy filling out a form. Though I do get a slightly more shady vibe off their paid plans, given the sheer scale.

1: https://nopecha.com/
I keep this list bookmarked: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
Sadly they are missing health checks.
It's just bash + python, and tightly integrated with a specific project I'm working on. i.e. it's ugly and doesn't make sense out of context ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think this is a great experiment. It is readable on my phone but I probably wouldn't want to read everything like this though. I think it's worth looking at old visual designs (like this person did) and seeing how they can be used in design and UX.
> to me, it seems like it's a no brainer to me when my teeth are clean - I can feel it

Then I envy you, because the only thing I feel that's different before and after brushing is a generalized "my mouth is sticky on the inside" feeling. I definitely lose track of how much time I spent cleaning each side relatively, and I'm sure there are areas I rarely reach because I don't know the brush isn't touching them.

I'd love having a toothbrush that would monitor if I reach every spot as a baseline; I can handle my problem teeth or any eating side imbalance on my own, especially that there is no rule saying you need to brush exactly 2 minutes (or 2.5 or whatever) and not a second more - I could do my baseline and spend extra 30 seconds or so in the problem areas.
Why have any? Zero errors is trivially achievable by not writing code.
What is your definition of "encrypted"?