skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. As someone who spent about 5 years working in local news a bit over a decade ago, it wasn't the search engines or Facebook that killed us, it was craigslist. Especially business classifieds, while not individually big $$$, they added up. We had some edge in content quality for a while, but the classifieds drying up led to deep cuts in the newsroom, and then there was nothing separating us from the local TV stations who also had superficial coverage, but got it out much quicker.
> You aren't even using the term Zionism correctly.

Many active zionists use the term this way, and not in the way you do. Secular Zionism of Hertzl was indeed more prominent, but already in 1902, Mizrahi organisation already saw a completely different concept of zionism, which didn't identify itself with European nation-state nationalism of 19th century. Ironically, both of these views are still Ashkenazi inventions. But most of israelis are not Ashkenazi, but Mizrahim. Role of Jerusalem in these communities, desire to live in historical Israel and restoration of Jewish state of Palestine is something which is completely forgotten.

And while zionism as state-building was not the focus of the jews, zionism as resettling to Israel was always a thing. My own family has been dispersed after expultion from Spain, and while most moved to Italy, some people (I forget the name) decided to move to Jerusalem instead. There always were sizable Jewish communities in the area, and immigrating there was a decision that people did take sometimes.
Well, I'm in my 50s, I thought it was the kids who expected their friends to be uncritically accepting.

This whole subthread spawned from one sentence where I asserted that I found it valuable when my friends would tell me if they thought my songs sounded too much like something else (and that they expected the same from me), as an illustration that there are contexts in which asking about originality is something that would be reasonable for a friend to do. Nothing you've said so far seems intended to refute any of that.

I stand by the notion that the definition of "cover" and "original" song are not especially ambiguous, even though music appreciation is subjective and there are edge cases where reasonable people may disagree about whether two songs are "too similar" to be considered distinct songs.
Unless there’s breakthrough development on alcohol sensors i doubt it, they need periodic calibration to be precise also it’s not just a matter of “blowing” you need to blow-suck-hum for it to read.
It's not really the economy so much as international economics. The term to look up here is 'exporting inflation.' [1] Historically the US was able to engage in what would be unsustainable economic policy for most nations, but kept it going by exporting the normal consequences (inflation) of such. There's a lot of nuanced reasons for this but one of the most simple is that we were the largest consumer economy by an extremely wide margin. So imagine there's a place Carlandia - whose economy is largely driven by exporting cars to the US. And we print a bunch of money so the dollar starts to dump in value. Ostensibly this would initially be really nice for Carlandia because each of their cars would sell for even more dollars.

But in practice what happens is that Americans would simply stop buying so many cars from you, and then Carlandia's economy would start to tank. But there's a simple solution. Carlandia intentionally starts to devalue its own currency, precisely to maintain stable trade levels. So they do precisely this, as do other nations around the world. But as prices around the world start to normalize the inflation disappears, but the money we printed doesn't. So this gives us the freedom to print money and have it disproportionately end up being "real" as opposed to just inflationary, as it would be for most other nations. So you basically get a 'print GDP' button.

But this is also a liminal state of affairs. Not only is the world going multipolar but other economies are growing much faster than ours meaning are gradually losing dominance in terms of being a key market target. If we're not able to export inflation and demand/dominance of the dollar starts to slide, then things are going to get rocky, fast.

[1] - https://search.brave.com/search?q=exporting+inflation
Unfortunately, the proposal was declined in 2022.

List of all proposals: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html
Oh boo. They used to be one of my favourite review/benchmarking sites :(
Nah. Japanese global cultural impact probably peaked in the 1980s or early 1990s. To the extent that it was "common knowledge" at the time that Japan would become the dominant global power.

Particularly for young people - Japanese cultural impact at the time was intense. Arcade gaming basically emerged from Japan - 8 of the top 10 biggest arcade games ever were Japanese. Then home video gaming - first with Nintendo and later others. The Sony walkman was a cultural phenomenon - as ubiquitous and valued as mobile phones are now for 1980s teenagers. Manga comics started appearing in western comic book shops and Kurosawa movies in arthouse cinemas. Japanese branded VCRs represented a revolution - the earliest on-demand system for consuming movie/TV media - and was embraced by the youth of the time.

And that's just then influence on the kids, in the adult world, Japanese car brands destroyed the US and Euro competition, home consumer electronics were almost exclusively Japanese. Japanese massive positive trade balance of payments meant they were forced to invest outside of Japan which resulted in a massive buying spree.
There are an absurd amount of illegalities in this decision. The Brazilian constitution and the "marco civil da internet" (a law that regulates internet) have been torn up.

It is sad to see a democracy taking this path, and still applauding it.
I've been running off a Raspberry Pi for years and it's been very stable. The main things for me were to use a good SD card, to use Ethernet instead of Wifi, and to also reboot the Pi daily via an automation.
> sometime it fails

That failures are a possibility does not concern me. That the failures are not fully characterized does.
John Carmack on the potential of web games instead of Steam releases
How AI Copyright Law Is Being Guided by Spirits from Atlantis
Look on the bright side, at least nothing of actual value was lost.
This is just polishing bad commit messages, it doesn't make them better.

A commit message should tell you why the code changed, not summarize what changed. I can read a code change and see what it does, but I can only guess what caused that change to be made unless the message tells me what was in your head (unless it's a trivial commit like a typo fix)

See eg https://cbea.ms/git-commit/#why-not-how for a longer discussion.
Oversimplifying it, but if you look as parallelism as a special case of concurrency [0] then ray is a framework for the former and actors are a model for the latter. Actors are lower level and you could build something like Ray on top of it, but if your goal is to process large data in parallel you’d want something like ray. Accordingly ray can’t be used for more general computing.

[0] and it’s an oversimplification because while concurrency can reasoned about conceptually, parallelism implicates implementation realities around computation resources and data locality.
> We're nowhere near a single worldwide religion, for example, which is odd because it's the most existential of cultural beliefs.

We have neoliberalism, at least
Brazilian court orders suspension of X
Micro- and nanoplastics ingested by Drosophila change heart size and function
Gemini is still client/server, so it encourages the same problems of scale that HTTP has where you can't afford to run a server unless you have a source of income. IE. it would get infested by adtech the same as HTTP if it got popular enough. IMO the only way to get something that wouldn't suffer the same fate would be to make it a peer-to-peer application where everyone using the client application was also hosting a server.
Can also happen in inland lakes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauredunum_event
Trickle down globalism. I think you're onto something.
I get access denied to 10tv.com
No idea why, do they ban UK / EU readers?
Today this exercise feels pointless. However. I remember the days when there were articles written about the possibility for "internet radio". In stead of good old broadcasting waves through the ether and simply thousands of radios tuning in, some server would send a massive amount of packets over a massive kilometers of copper to thousands of endpoints. Ad absurdum the endpoints would even send ack packages upstream to the poor server to keep connections alive. It seemed like a huge waste of computing power, wire and energy.

And here we are, binging netflix movies over such copper wires.

I'm not saying games will be replaced by diffusion models dreaming up next images based on user input, but a variation of that might end up in a form of interactive art creation or a new form of entertainment.
1/ Hsinchu, Taiwan for semiconductor manufacturing

2/ Denver, Colorado for fast casual restaurant chains: Chipotle, Smashburger, Quiznos et al.

3/ I'd also put forth Vancouver, Canada for fast fashion, specifically the "athleisure" look: Lululemon, Aritzia, Reigning Champ, Arc'teryx, Indochino
This is my presentation :)

All of this work funneled into my latest front end project: https://starfx.bower.sh
Would be fun if it had a language selector.
What mattered more white collar or illegal immigration?

Every country can chart its own way. South Korea is both more healthy innovation wise and less healthy demographically, right?
> you can't use discord when you play actual games.

I think the issue specifically was wanting discord to know the game that was actually running instead of an always running other mistaken game.
If they were similar in numbers why would it be the Japanese ceding instead of the foreigners? Even if so, it's all the more reason to not let them in in the first place. Keep Japan Japanese for the Japanese
Same thing where I work now. Many experienced developers waste a huge chunk of their time trying to wrap their heads around their Django micro services communication patterns and edge cases. Much more complex than an equivalent Rails monolith, even though Ruby and Rails both have their issues and could be replaced by more modern tech in 2024.
It was not a cabal. It was scientific fraud.

Karen Ashe and Sylvain Lesné at Minnesota published a fake paper that redirected billions of research into the trash bin. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/faked-beta-amyloid... Amazingly both still have their jobs for life, both still publish, Ashe is still a member of the National Academy of Medicine, both are still getting grants.
If they weren't used, they would quickly grow over and disappear.
I wonder how the frequency is now. A lot can change in 20 years. I’m also surprised that Kontrollieren can fit on the busses - during peak hours, busy bus routes generally are standing room only.

On the other end of the spectrum, Istanbul has turnstiles at bus stops, just like a subway.
As unavoidable mentioned, there are viral theories.

In Science, from July, "Can infections cause Alzheimer’s? A small community of researchers is determined to find out. Following up tantalizing links between pathogens and brain disease, new projects search for causal evidence", https://www.science.org/content/article/can-infections-cause...
This should be plenty fast. SDL_RenderCopy generally should be doing things the 'right' way for on any video card made roughly in the last 15ish years (basically binding a texture in GPU RAM to a quad).

You probably need to due some debugging/profiling to find where your problem is. Make sure you aren't creating SDL_Textures (or loading SDL_Surfaces) inside your main game play loop. You also may want to check what backend the SDL_Renderer is utilizing (e.g. OpenGL, Direct3D, Vulkan, Metal, software). If you are on software, that is likely your problem. Try forcing it to something hardware accelerated.

Also, I vaguely recall there was a legacy flag on SDL_Surfaces called "hardware" or "SDL_HWSURFACE" or "SDL_HWACCEL" or something. Don't set that. It was a a very legacy hardware from like 25 years ago that is slow on everything now.
No, it doesn’t fit anybody’s real life intuition, because there isn’t an industry of comparing notes about the people we see (with or without disguises). If the analogy requires us to imagine a pervasive surveillance system that tracks you from the moment you leave your door, it isn’t in the intuitive experience of normal people.
That's a great point. It's at least nice to know that there are actionable steps and goals (no matter how hard it is to fix a broken system with a broken system)
I remember those in my primary school. The warnings, not the acid.
That's what I was thinking. I good example of over-engineering though.
Low Cost Mini PCs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389931
There just isn’t a need for legacy media anymore. Anyone can shitpost all day on X or Threads and reach an audience 10x that of AnandTech or any other traditional media outfit.
It makes them better, up to a point. Many commits (esp in private repos or WIP branches) are barely descriptive and of the form "stuff broke" "i got test to pass" "yay", etc. These commits don't make it into mainline, and I don't really want to spend time carefully writing them. In this case, a tool like this may be useful.

Also, the `aicommit` tool has a -c flag for accepting context and the "why". I have only been playing with it for a couple of days so I'm not sure how effective it will be.
Ah.

Then, if there is a decision not to prosecute, that decision would be exceedingly strange. But surely that can't be the case, it would be too stupid.
On a related note, Nvidia virtually recreated the Apollo 11 lunar landing site [1]. They wanted to show that the illumination of Buzz Aldrin in a photo of him exiting the moon lander was indeed as expected and not a hoax. The reason Aldrin appeared so perfectly illuminated was not a studio light but the space suit of Neil Armstrong, who took the photo!

[1] https://www.cnet.com/science/nvidias-new-gpu-sinks-moon-land...
Microsoft, Apple, and Nvidia will reportedly bail out OpenAI from bankruptcy
'Free' vs. 'Available' Memory in Linux
This isn't even close to twitch right? It's just a middle layer to add ads to the stream without it being adblockable.
Whatever the problem is, it probably isn't SDL. Here's a test project I worked on[0], and I'm using a garbage laptop. The sprites aren't that big but if you're just using a single texture it shouldn't matter, since SDL does sprite batching anyway.

Your theory might be right - the first thing I would look for was something allocating every frame.

You might ask the SDL Discourse forum and see what they think: https://discourse.libsdl.org/

[0]https://cdn.masto.host/krappmastohost/media_attachments/file...
I do not think "skipping to MMT" is the right plan for understanding mainstream economics, or any kind of economic theory likely to govern decisionmaking in the near future. I think some of the core ideas in MMT took a real bruising over the last couple years.
> an ethical hacker got through the HTTPS layer pretty fast.

Are we talking obsolete SSL ciphers?
I took a look at it since I'm learning cl. lem doesn't appear to have a concept of emacs frames? I have all the HiDPI display area that I could ever want, and an fvwm-based emacs dev configuration evolved over 25 years. The feature mandatory to my (and only mine) dev happiness is to have overlapping emacs frames with the mouse used to rollover often barely visible frames to autofocus them when needed. My memory cache of which frames are important when is helped by where I place the frames on the screen. This is optimally efficient for me, it's a pleasure to work in.

Although I dearly loved terminal turbo pascal/c, I really detest tiling only window managers/apps.

I just built lem-sdl2 from git and I'm poking around the "Workspaces" "docs" and I'm not seeing what I need. Am I missing something? I'd say, "oh boy, so cool" if I am. If I am not missing something, darn.

[edit: make it clear I built the sdl2 variant on debian testing]
Coinbase killer – first non-custodial exchange for fiat and crypto
I don't disagree with alot of what was said. but it really feels like the leadership that can be learned from reading blogs can never really be leadership at all
The incident around thalidomide is basically FDA mythos at this point.
Cox (was) bragging about listening to user mics
I've pip-install it in my homeserver (a small celeron with enough ram and storage) BUT I have a note to all HA users and devs: why the hell keep insisting on the WebUI for configuring, it's NOT reproducible nor simple.

Oh, of course, for a casual user it's simple, unfortunately no casual users know about HA or how to physically integrate HA in a smart home, so the idea of making a generic end-user system it's a failure in principle, no matter the implementation. Aside nothing is forever so even if for some it's easier to go for a WebUI, when it will break, because it will (and with HA I've experienced issues various time, an update at a time) you need to waste big time instead of simply adapting a damn simple config.

Hell, even NixOS with it's damn nix language is enormously simpler than the YAML hell + WebUI of HA. And yes, NixOS is far more stable and simple than playing with an entire distro just to run a Pythonic app.
Tail Recursion Explained
They’re not afraid to lay off MDs, or to unpartner people.
No level. It's a continuum. The more isolated, the faster the cultures will diverge.
Typo in my first sentence about the Gen 8. it should be "Gen 8 cpu's in a USFF appear to deliver lower idle power usage and lower high end power usage than Gen 6/7."

You're correct that some of these machines have desktop CPUs, what I discovered was they also have different classes of desktop CPUs.

The m920q/m920s appear to have differnet power usages an possibly different cpus, or at least they're configured different.

If I compare the two:

- m920q (USFF) can go as high as 135w: https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkCentre/ThinkCe...

- m920s SFF can go as high as 260w: https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkCentre/ThinkCe...

Additionally, if you look up the Gen 6/7/8 power usage for the cpu itself, you can see the idle and total is different as well.

The trick is Lenovo is far from the best priced USFF in this category for the same thing.

When I bought Lenovo, I wanted to try out Proxmox, had no interest in fighting with installation or drivers, an just picked something that had flawless installation... that has since improved with other manufacturers.

The tool from OP here is really cool - I'd probably add some from the spreadsheet I had built out but I haven't had to buy many more of these once I figured it out. Load them up with ram, a few ssds, a UPS and they're pretty solid.
Millenia of stubbornly cosmopolitan cities suggests it's not so inevitable, as does all but the most modern history of Europe, India, and East Asia. These all reflect essentially distinct cultural communities in constant trade and travel for hundreds and hundreds of years. Contact alone isn't enough.

Homogenization doesn't seem to happen until either some sweeping administrative body insists on it, or (unique to modernity) a specific culture's media successfully and pervasively inserts itself between people and local/inherited traditions.
The only one I've found that passes my test (no ads if you subscribe, and equally important, all the tracking crap is also gone), is ArsTechnica. I check the stories several times a week, so I'm happy to subscribe under those terms.

For every thing else I use adblockers.
beautiful yet simple explanation of tail recursion as applied to the factorial function, and how it makes the function more efficient.

that is just the initial part of the video.
> micro-transactions are not possible given the huge banking fees

Cryptocurrencies like Litecoin have low transaction fees (currently less than a cent). Apple somehow manages to sell apps that cost just several bucks.

Also, in Russia, a Fast Payment System allows transfers up to $1000/months without commission, however these terms are available only to personal transfers and not for business. But it shows that low-cost transfers are possible even in traditional banking system.
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The Death of the Modified Developer
Unfortunately, it increasingly feels like the cowboy is the lobbyist in this picture and the victims of their scam are the regulators and people with semi religious beliefs. The specific limits in the law are possible to reach with this year’s hardware and enough money to buy a large gpu cluster and let it train for months. In five years the current limit in the law might be accessible by academia using government clusters and in ten years it may be accessible to patient home users, especially if some of the specialized hardwares that are now in the works find ways to commercialize and have mass appeal. Limiting the amount of compute by law is such an odd concept when we are in a phase of exponential growth.
Brazil Blocks X/Twitter After Musk Ignores Court Orders
That's not deep packet inspection, just FYI. Timing and traffic correlation attacks never get any access to the packet information and piggy back on existing network weaknesses (correlating IP addresses based on timing metadata)
At this point I’m more surprised when someone doesn’t find a way to work politics into whatever they are saying. We are well past the point when a site needed to have some plausible connection to politics to justify including it.

The number of random Kamala blow job innuendo comments I’ve seen posted in completely unrelated topics in the last few jobs is disheartening.
There are dcc systems that run on Arduino or raspberry pi, and expose an API interface. Could control one via home assistant
I ran it on RPI 3 and 4 with SSD for years and had zero issues. Now moved to the mini pc but RPI still hosting other stuff and works rock solid.
The other reasonable course of action would be to go to court, where a jury of average citizens could determine whether or not Apple or Docker is in the wrong and decide damages.

Docker wasn't pushed into taking the image down, they *decided* that they'd rather take the image down than have a jury decide who is in the wrong.
What if it's like, a utility company trying to warn you they'll cut off power/water/whatever in a few minutes because of emergency works?
There's a dominoes pizza integration in home assistant
Axon is the equivalent of Coinbase with zero custody risk for buying, selling, trading, lending, borrowing fiat or crypto. The Axon 360 app provides fiat<>crypto fees as low as 0.2% with zero custody risk, so users don't need to go to:
- On/Off Ramp solutions like Ramp / Moonpay / etc, which charge 2%-5% in fees
- Centralized Exchanges which easily can be the next FTX

It’s a $3 trillion market in terms of yearly volume between fiat and crypto and Axon is the first to offer fast, low cost and fully non-custodial transaction settlements.
Also, some systems have had to transition from proof-of-payment to fare gates - I know Vancouver had to do so on Skytrain a decade or so ago. I think proof-of-payment works best on a commuter line like Caltrain, where there are a few main nodes. In Caltrain’s case, that would be San Jose, Millbrae (connects to the airport and BART), and San Francisco, along with perhaps Palo Alto. I could probably take a train from Mountain View to San Jose without ever encountering a conductor, and perhaps even the other direction. But they know most people are riding all the way, so they only need to check a few times.